The prizes were enormous.

You would admit these things if you knew the facts.

Perhaps some day you will know them, for you are a fairly clever person at getting to the root of a matter.

Yes, I was blinded, hypnotized.' 'And now you are ruined.' 'Not ruined, not ruined.

Afterwards, in a few years, I shall come up again.
A man of genius like me is never ruined till he is dead.