Quotation from: The Secret Agent

Written by: Joseph Conrad


"I am afraid I haven't time to wait for your husband," he said.


Mrs Verloc received this declaration listlessly. Her detachment had
impressed Chief Inspector Heat all along. At this precise moment it
whetted his curiosity. Chief Inspector Heat hung in the wind, swayed by
his passions like the most private of citizens.


"I think," he said, looking at her steadily, "that you could give me a
pretty good notion of what's going on if you liked."

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