"I asked you how honest you are going to be."
"It's a question I don't think you need to ask me."
"I do. How else will I find out?"
"I intend the 'Clarion' to be strictly and absolutely honest. That's all there is to that."
"Don't be so young," said McGuire Ellis wearily. "'Strictly and absol'—see here, did you ever read 'The Wrecker'?"
"More than once."
"Remember the chap who says, 'You seem to think honesty as simple as blindman's-buff. I don't. It's some difference of definition, I suppose'? Now, there's meat in that."
"Difference of definition be hanged. Honesty is honesty."
"And policy is policy. And bankruptcy is bankruptcy."
"I don't see the connection."