"Perhaps you will admit that you owe me some explanation." He laughed, a deep bass laugh, and looked down at me with a gleam of humour in his black eyes.
"Come," he said, "I think that the boot is on the other leg.

My head is exceedingly painful and my leg is very stiff.

For a young man of your build you have a most surprising muscle." "I am to understand, then, that it was you who committed an unprovoked assault upon me--who planned to have me waylaid in that dastardly fashion ?" "Do you think," Ray asked quietly, "that I should be such a damned fool ?" "What am I to think, then, what am I to believe ?" I asked, with a sudden anger.

"You found me starving, and you gave me employment, but ever since I started my work life has become a huge ugly riddle.

Are you my friend or my enemy?
I do not know.