"Do you ?" "Mrs.Dalton told me.

You helped George when he needed help, although he had no particular claim." "He was ill and unfit for hard work." "Was that the only difficulty ?" "I don't see what you mean," said Festing, with some embarrassment.
"Then I'll be frank.

In what kind of company did you find the lad?
You see, I know something about him." "If you insist, he'd got into bad hands." "That was what I suspected, and I think Mrs.Dalton knows.

George was not very steady when he was at home and got into some trouble before he left the office of a civil engineer.

In fact, this was why he went to Canada." "But I don't see what it has to do with me." "I wonder whether you are as dull as you pretend.