“I have always supposed I did.”
“You're an unusual man. I congratulate you.”
“See here, Smiley, this is interesting. You don't mean to say that you consider smuggling an honorable business?”
“Why not?”
“Why not! Why—why—”
“It might clear your ideas, Beveridge, to go into this question a little. Smuggling means, I suppose, the bringing of merchandise from, say, Canada to this country.”
“Dutiable merchandise, yes.”
“What makes it dutiable?”
“The law.”
“What makes the law?”