He wants to spy on you.

Aristo spy. Used to be with Evremonde.

But you said, he was spying on you.

Or on my frailties why are frailer spies,

When I hire a private organization to spy on my own personnel...

Alice. But a poor attacker who listens in on this conversation has no idea what the shared key is.

I'd have carried the thing myself, but he was hanging around watching, spying.

Because he's a detective from Scotland Yard. That's why. Spying on us, on me, through you.

Not long after it came out, Augusten was waylaid in an airport and he was hiding out in the bookstore spying on who was buying his books.