But--and this is the point I want to emphasize--neither of you know, nor am I at liberty to inform you--just what bounds the authorities may reach, or stop at.

Have I made my meaning clear ?" "Yes," said Curtis.
"We're to be good little boys, and sit still, and say nothing, and do as we're told," said Devar.
"I'm not asking impossibilities," said Steingall, who had a dry humor, and seldom missed a chance of gratifying it.

"I have merely laid down a proviso which must be observed, not for a day, or a week, but as long as any of us is alive.

State affairs are not the property of individuals.

They come first, all the time.