“These, then, are your instructions,” said the Baron, speaking slowly
and distinctly, as if to impress his words upon my memory. “On your
arrival in the United States you will follow the accredited methods that
are known to be used by all the best Spies of the highest diplomacy.
You have no doubt read some of the books, almost manuals of instruction,
that they have written?”
“I have read many of them,” I said.
“Very well. You will enter, that is to say, enter and move everywhere in
the best society. Mark specially, please, that you must not only _enter_
it but you must _move_. You must, if I may put it so, get a move on.”