The Secret Adversary (Tommy & Tuppence #1)

by Agatha Christie

I always help old ladies over crossings, and pick up parcels for old gentlemen, in case they should turn out to be eccentric millionaires. But not one of them has ever asked me my name — and quite a lot never said ‘Thank you.’”

It is curious — but you cannot make a revolution without honest men. The instinct of the populace is infallible.” He paused, and then repeated, as though the phrase pleased him: “Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.”

I’ve always heard you Revolutionists held life cheap, but it seems there’s a difference when it’s your own life in question.