Words merely spoken, he assured himself, can be denied, if that becomes afterward necessary.

Written words, undestroyed, cannot be so easily escaped.
"Anything I can do for you ?" Mr.Lee queried, when Pike hesitated.

"You have a communication, I believe ?" Donald pulled himself together, and the opening sentences of what he intended to say came back to him.

He had thought these out with care, and they seemed very fine and even humanitarian.
"I want you to know at the outset, Mr.Lee, that in coming to you with the information I bear I am wholly disinterested.

But the truth is due you.