Quotation from: The Secret Agent

Written by: Joseph Conrad

"Going on! What _is_ going on?"

"Why, the affair I came to talk about a little with your husband."

That day Mrs Verloc had glanced at a morning paper as usual. But she had
not stirred out of doors. The newsboys never invaded Brett Street. It
was not a street for their business. And the echo of their cries
drifting along the populous thoroughfares, expired between the dirty
brick walls without reaching the threshold of the shop. Her husband had
not brought an evening paper home. At any rate she had not seen it. Mrs
Verloc knew nothing whatever of any affair. And she said so, with a
genuine note of wonder in her quiet voice.