I don't think that I am at all of a suspicious nature, but I really should like to learn a little about this man.

I do not mean that I am going to try to do so.

It would be an unworthy action to pry into another's business, when it is no concern of one's own.

Still, I should like to know why he is here." Ralph shrugged his shoulders.
"This comes of living the life of a hermit, Gervaise.

Other people meet and talk, and enjoy what society there is in the city, without troubling their heads for a moment as to where people come from or what their business is here, still less whether they are spies.