But if you want to know, we really have something in common." "I should like to know what." "Why, it's all about a house-painter....

We are getting him out of a mess! Though indeed there's nothing to fear now.

The matter is absolutely self-evident.

We only put on steam." "A painter ?" "Why, haven't I told you about it?
I only told you the beginning then about the murder of the old pawnbroker-woman.

Well, the painter is mixed up in it..." "Oh, I heard about that murder before and was rather interested in it...
partly...