"Of course, Mac, I can depend on you. I'm just giving myself away. It's no good my asking you to observe strict confidence, for, if you won't come in, from the mere fact of your knowing it the thing's just busted up, that's all."
"Sounds like a mystery-of-blood-to-thee-I'll-now-unfold sort of thing."
"I don't know about mystery, but there'll be plenty of blood."
Mr. Railton stopped short and looked at his friend.
"Blood, eh? I say, Rodney, think before you speak."
"I have thought. I thought I'd play the game alone. But it's too big a game for one."
"Well, if you have thought, out with it, or be silent evermore."
"You know Plumline, the dramatist?"
"I know he's an ass."
"Ass or no ass, it's from him I got the idea."