I have done my very utmost to prevent your having positive proof of the thing, but that part of the business is now done with.

You know, and you can do what you please with the knowledge." But, now that the moment had come, Rupert Craven could do nothing with it.
"I don't want to do anything," he muttered at last.

"I'm not up to doing anything.

I don't understand it.

I'm not the sort of fellow who ought to be in this kind of thing at all." That was how he now saw it, as an unfair advantage that had been taken of him.