I haven't the remotest idea as to why they are here, or how they dropped across me.

But isn't it a rather fortunate thing?
They may prove useful in a hundred ways." "Please don't keep them waiting.

What does the detective want ?" "Every syllable you can tell him about Count Vassilan." "I hardly know the man at all.

I always avoided him in Paris." "You may be astonished by the number of facts you will produce when Steingall questions you.

And, I had better warn you that my uncle is even now consulting the head-waiter about a wedding feast.