Once more seated on his stool he added interrogatively: "Did you think you heard something moving outside ?" "No." "You were saying something when I went out.

Pardon my interruption." Farnsworth gave the priest a searching and not wholly confiding look.
"You did not interrupt me, Father Beret.

I was not speaking.

Why are you so watchful?
Are you afraid of eavesdroppers ?" "You were speaking recklessly.

Your words were incendiary: ardentia verba.