"Be a murderer as well as a thief, would you? I shouldn't be surprised. You mightn't find it so easy to bring off this job as you did the other; killing a man is not so simple as killing a pig, take my word for it."
"Listen to me, Gregory Lamb."
"I'm listening, Mrs. Lamb, and it gives me real pleasure to do it."
"I'll make a rich man of you if you'll take yourself off."
He stayed the lighted match on its passage to his pipe.
"You'll make a rich man of me? Now you're singing in quite another key. How are you going to do it?"
"I'm staying in the house of a man who's dying."
"Dying is he? Then what does he want you in the house for? Have you turned nurse? Is that your latest caper?"
"Never mind what I've turned. He's a rich man."
"What do you call rich?--like me?"