"Until the next time you decide you're going to try to steal my fortune, hmm?"

Come on, Glomgold. Scrooge was on to you. Not that there was anything even vaguely resembling a stretch where this was concerned.

"You might as well give it up, you know. You've never had any luck where your crazy schemes are concerned, and you're hardly about to start now."

It was funny how he could almost sound utterly congenial when he said things like that.

Because he was confident it was true.