But there are hooks and crooks by which facts are sometimes obtained.
Chalmers
(Positively.) Knox has nothing to go on but suspicions and hints, and unfounded assertions from the yellow press.
(Man-servant enters, goes to tea-table, looks it over, and makes slight rearrangements.) (Lowering his voice.) He will make himself a laughing stock. His charges will turn into boomerangs. His speech will be like a sheet from a Sunday supplement, with not a fact to back it up. (Glances at Servant.) We'd better be getting out of here. They're going to have tea.
(The Servant, however, makes exit.) Come to the library and have a high-ball. (They pause as Hubbard speaks.)
Hubbard
(With quiet glee.) And to-morrow Ali Baba gets his.
Chalmers
Ali Baba?
Hubbard