Horace said, "My first thought was to run."
"Of course, you could do that. But I would telephone the police and tell them all about you. They’d get you at once."
Horace said: "I would, of course, cut the telephone wires first and then—" he hesitated, a smile on his face, "I would make sure that you could do nothing for some time. A few hours would be enough."
She looked at him seriously. "You'd hurt me?"
Horace paused, and then said: “I think I was trying to frighten you when I said that."
"You didn't frighten me."
Horace suggested: "It would be nice if you would forget you ever saw me. Let me go."