You can give any reason you like for my orders.
It is a whim.

I have whims, and I choose to pay for them.

You are all better paid than any man breathing could pay you.

In return I ask only for your implicit obedience." He stretched out his hand and took a cigarette from a curiously carved ivory box which stood by his side.

He tapped it gently upon the table and looked up.
"I think, sir," Henderson said respectfully, "that I can answer for the servants.