"And your present anxiety is to know where I spent the intervening time, and why I am here in Monte Carlo?
Frankly, Mr.Draconmeyer, I look upon this close interest in my movements as an impertinence.

My travels have been of no importance, but they concern myself only.

I have no confidence to offer respecting them.
If I had, it would not be to you that I should unburden myself." "You suspect me, then?
You doubt my integrity ?" "Not at all," Hunterleys assured his questioner.

"For anything I know to the contrary, you are, outside the world of finance, one of the dullest and most harmless men existing.

My own position is simply as I explained it during the first few sentences we exchanged.