"It is a fascinating business: one lives in an atmosphere that is charged with secret affairs, and it infects one like the influenza.

You catch it somehow, and have a feverish cold of your own.

And I am quite useful to him.

You see, I am such a chatterbox that people think I let out things by accident, which I never do.

I let out what I want to let out on purpose, and they think they are pumping me.