If he were to try again, Mike would not find it so easy to negotiate,
without making a dangerous noise over the job.
"Such impatience--such undisguised rapacity--is indecent and revolting,"
Beaumaroy remarked. He seemed to be in the highest spirits. "I wonder if
they've opened it yet!"
"They'll see you prowling about outside, won't they?"
"I hope so. Indeed I've no doubt of it. Mrs. Greeneyes is probably
peering through the parlor window at this minute, and cursing me. I like
it! To those people I represent law and order. If they can rise to the
conception of such a thing at all, I probably embody conscience. When you
come to think of it, it's a pleasant turn of events that I should come to
represent law and order and conscience to anybody, even to the Radbolts."
"It is rather a change," she agreed. "But let's walk on. I don't really
much want to think of them."
"That's because you feel that you're losing the bet. I can't stop them
getting the money in the end, that's your doing! I can't stop them
cheating the Revenue, which is what they certainly mean to do, without
exposing myself to more inconvenience than I am disposed to undergo in
the cause of the Revenue.
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