"I'm sick of the very name of bonds." And this had been his attitude from the moment the detective left.

My own insistence that it was our duty to track down the thief met with nothing but a shrug.

Another person might have suspected that this apathy only proved his own culpability in the theft, but such a suspicion never for a moment crossed my mind.

He was, as he said, sick of the very name of bonds, and with a person of his temperament that ended the matter.

Though I did not comprehend his attitude, still I took him at his word.