Am I right if I think you know where he keeps it ?" "Spare your breath, Mr.Toller.Once more, it won't do!" Cristel joined us, amazed at his pertinacity.

"Why are you so anxious, father, to know about that portfolio ?" she asked.
Her father seemed to have reasons of his own for following my example and declining to answer questions.

More polite, however, than I had been, he left his resolution to be inferred.

His daughter was answered by a few general remarks, setting forth the advantage to the landlord of having a lodger who had lost one of senses.
"You see there's something convenient, my dear, in the circumstance of that nice-looking gentleman over there being deaf.

We can talk about him before his face, just as comfortably as if it was behind his back.