"My engagement is unbreakable." "The Chief will be sorry," Williams said.

"So am I.Will you go round to Downing Street and see him afterwards ?" "I could," Tallente admitted, "but why?
I have nothing to say to him.
I can't conceive what he could have to say to me.

There are always pressmen loitering about Downing Street, who would place the wrong construction on my visit.

You saw all the rubbish they wrote because he and I talked together for a quarter of an hour at Mrs.Van Fosdyke's ?" "I know all about that," Williams assented, "but this time, Tallente, there's something in it.

The Chief quarrelled with you for the sake of the old gang.