"I haven't made any attack. But I wished to make it quite clear that I was ready to go to any lengths."
"Even to the length of attributing the theft of this pair of earrings to me?"
"Perhaps."
"Oh! Then I'd better lose no time proving that they're in your hands."
"Be quick about it."
Once more he stopped short on the threshold of the door and said:
"Then we're enemies?"
"We're enemies."
"Why? You're quite unacquainted with me."
"I don't need to be acquainted with you to know who you are."