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‘All the way here he was talking about what he was going to do if he ever found you again. And now you tell me he did find you. What happened? Didn’t he eat you?’ ‘No, miss.’ ‘Probably on a diet.
Will you not, if I may coin a phrase, be afraid of the big bad wolf?’
‘Not a bad sort, old Glossop. I like him.’ ‘You can have him.’
He seemed to be thinking that this was one of those stories you could listen to better sitting down.
well, what I’m driving at is that you couldn’t by any stretch of the imag. call him slender and willowy.’
didn’t want you to come barging in, interrupting my work. A few words on the telephone would have met the case. But I suppose some instinct told you that this was my busy day.’
‘You wrong me, relative.
‘Don’t be an ass, Oates. You can’t expect a dog to pass up a policeman on a bicycle. It isn’t human nature.
‘You have disappointed me. I thought you had guts.’ ‘I have, and I don’t want Roderick Spode fooling about with them.’
Sign of a prudent gent.
‘There is a right way and a wrong way of pinching policemen’s helmets,’ I said firmly.
Yes.
‘He is, at a conservative estimate, about twenty-seven times as pumpkin-headed as me. He begins where I leave off.
Yes.
