
But I can always pretty satisfactorily account for all my possessions.

Perhaps it would be the exaggeration of eulogy to call me a tidy person. For in taking things out of my own pocket I had at least one of the more tense and quivering emotions of the thief I had a complete ignorance and a profound curiosity as to what I should find there. My act can really with some reason be so described. I have only once in my life picked a pocket, and then (perhaps through some absent-mindedness) I picked my own. No one but GKC could turn a train ride with nothing to read into an adventure in pickpocketing (his own pockets, no less!) with such delightful results.

If today is one of those days for you, enjoy. Some days, you just need a good visit with G.K.
