You will probably meet him again, for he will find an opportunity of asking you a few questions about myself.

I need hardly tell you--" He lifted his shoulders with a deprecating smile.
"I shall certainly not discuss your business with any person," said the girl coldly.
"I am paying you 3 pounds a week, I think," he said.

"I intend increasing that to 5 pounds because you suit me most admirably." "Thank you," said the girl quietly, "but I am already being paid quite sufficient." She left him, a little astonished and not a little ruffled.
To refuse the favours of Remington Kara was, by him, regarded as something of an affront.

Half his quarrel with T.X.was that gentleman's curious indifference to the benevolent attitude which Kara had persistently adopted in his dealings with the detective.
He rang the bell, this time for his valet.
"Fisher," he said, "I am expecting a visit from a gentleman named Gathercole--a one-armed gentleman whom you must look after if he comes.
Detain him on some pretext or other because he is rather difficult to get hold of and I want to see him.

I am going out now and I shall be back at 6.30.Do whatever you can to prevent him going away until I return.