"You've been fooling me." "You never asked me.

Mr Richardson knew; he was in the shop just after I found it." "Of course he was," sneered Pledge.
"He needn't have been, if that's what you mean.

He'd nothing to do with it.

Bless you, it's an old story now; I'd almost forgotten it." "You forgot, too, that you asked me to recover it for you; and you let me go on while all the time you had it." "You offered to get it back.

I never asked you.