There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
Perchance you shall, fair sir, said Nigel, for all that I have seen of you fills me with this desire to go further with you. It is in my mind that we might turn this thing to profit and to honour, for...
You can understand,' said Holmes very suavely, 'that I extend to the affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to you in yours.