“We want to know something about that man — and about you. It is strange to know no more about either, and particularly you, than I was able to tell last night. Is not this as good a time as another for our knowing more?”
“Well!” he said, after consideration. “You're on your oath, you know, Pip's comrade?”
“Assuredly,” replied Herbert.
“As to anything I say, you know,” he insisted.
“The oath applies to all.”
“I understand it to do so.”
“And look'ee here! Wotever I done is worked out and paid for,” he insisted again.