"Do you know what you and I ought to be doing, at this moment?
We ought to be following that man every step he takes." "But where ?" She shook her head, slowly, in dissent.
"That's for us to find out.

But can't you feel that he's left us in the lurch, that we're shut up here, while he's giving us the laugh and getting away ?" "Jim, listen to me.

During this past week I've seen more of Keenan than you have." "Yes, a vast sight more!" he interjected, heatedly.
"And I feel sure," she went on evenly, "that he is more frightened and worried than he pretends to be.

He is, after all, only a tricky and ferrety Irish lawyer, who is afraid of every power outside his own little circuit of experience.

He's afraid of Italy.