"You idiot," I said, "why don't you own yourself wrong and have done with it?
Why should he have made a secret sign any more than any one else?
You own he said nothing and did nothing worth mentioning.

You own that, don't you ?" His face grew grave.
"Well, since you ask me, I must admit that I do.

It is possible that the milkman did not betray himself.

It is even possible that I was wrong about him." "Then come along with you," I said, with a certain amicable anger, "and remember that you owe me half a crown." "As to that, I differ from you," said Rupert coolly.

"The milkman's remarks may have been quite innocent.