Adventure Of The Supercilious Attache

Nonsense, child, nonsense! Your courage and promptitude were worth ten times that sum, ' she exclaimed, positively slipping her arm round my neck. 'It was your courage I particularly admired, Lois; because you faced the risk of my happening to look inside the outer case, and finding you had abstracted the blessed box: in which case I might quite naturally have concluded you meant to steal it.'