Quotation from: The Secret Agent

Written by: Joseph Conrad

She took it mechanically in both her hands. Her eyes seemed to grow
bigger as she looked.

"Yes," she whispered, then raised her head, and staggered backward a
little.

"Whatever for is it torn out like this?"

The Chief Inspector snatched across the counter the cloth out of her
hands, and she sat heavily on the chair. He thought: identification's
perfect. And in that moment he had a glimpse into the whole amazing
truth. Verloc was the "other man."