“What more could he do—right there on the dock?”
“Oh, then you do know?”
“Know what?”
“What do you suppose? Can’t you guess?”
“I didn’t know you wanted me to guess. I thought you meant to tell me.”
“I can’t tell you what I don’t know myself—officially.”
“Do you know it in any other way?”
“I know it by signs and tokens.”
“One can infer a lot from them.”