“You think so. That’s just it. You think every other mind wants to know . I remember once, when I asked you why you conducted all these researches, you said you wanted your F.R.S. , and to have the stuff called Cavorite, and things like that. You know perfectly well you didn’t do it for that; but at the time my question took you by surprise, and you felt you ought to have something to look like a motive. Really you conducted researches because you had to. It’s your twist.”

“Perhaps it is⁠—”