I will say for Mr.Barclay that he was willing to tell me the facts of Satan's history, but he stopped there: he wouldn't allow any discussion of them.
In the course of time we exhausted the facts.

There were only five or six of them, you could set them all down on a visiting-card.

I was disappointed.

I had been meditating a biography, and was grieved to find that there were no materials.

I said as much, with the tears running down.