Quotation from: The Secret Agent

Written by: Joseph Conrad

"Put it out of my head," repeated the Chief Inspector very slowly.

"Yes. Till you were called into this room--you know."

The Chief Inspector felt as if the air between his clothing and his skin
had become unpleasantly hot. It was the sensation of an unprecedented
and incredible experience.

"Of course," he said, exaggerating the deliberation of his utterance to
the utmost limits of possibility, "if there is a reason, of which I know
nothing, for not interfering with the convict Michaelis, perhaps it's
just as well I didn't start the county police after him."