I might have killed you just now had I wished.

I could have put my pistol to your breast and fired, or said to you, 'Surrender at discretion!' as you so lately said to me." "And what use would that have been ?" "It would have made a secret safe that you ought never to have known." "It would have been the most unfortunate thing for you that could have happened, for if you had killed me the paper would have spoken.

So! you think that if you were to assassinate me you would only have to stoop over my dead body and search my pockets, and, having found the incriminating document, destroy it.

You seem to have formed no very high opinion of my intelligence and common sense.

You of the upper classes don't need these qualities, the law is on, your side.