"I think I can get around Handsome, all right. It is Madge I am shy of."
"There will be one thing in your favor, Patsy, if you do undertake it."
"If I do undertake it? Of course, I shall undertake it."
"Then there will be one thing in your favor."
"What is that, please?"
"The very fact that you do go back among them in the same character in which you appeared before. I am inclined to think that now they would not take in a new man, no matter how well he might be recommended; but one that they have known before will stand a lot better chance with them."
"I think so."
"The very fact of your returning will go far to allay any suspicions they might have had about you formerly. It would never occur to them that if you were really a detective that time, you would dare to return to them in the same character."
"You are right about that."
"And, consequently, if you succeed in passing the investigation of the first few hours, you will be all right."