Should he go to Nuncombe Putney himself?
And if so, when he got to Nuncombe Putney what should he do there?
At last, in his suspense and his grief, he resolved that he would tell the whole to Hugh Stanbury.
"Do you mean," said Hugh, "that you have put a policeman on his track ?" "The man was a policeman once." "What we call a private detective.

I can't say I think you were right." "But you see that it was necessary," said Trevelyan.
"I can't say that it was necessary.

To speak out, I can't understand that a wife should be worth watching who requires watching." "Is a man to do nothing then?
And even now it is not my wife whom I doubt." "As for Colonel Osborne, if he chooses to go to Lessboro', why shouldn't he?
Nothing that you can do, or that Bozzle can do, can prevent him.

He has a perfect right to go to Lessboro'." "But he has not a right to go to my wife." "And if your wife refuses to see him; or having seen him,--for a man may force his way in anywhere with a little trouble,--if she sends him away with a flea in his ear, as I believe she would--" "She is so frightfully indiscreet." "I don't see what Bozzle can do." "He has found out at any rate that Osborne is there," said Trevelyan.
"I am not more fond of dealing with such fellows than you are yourself.

But I think it is my duty to know what is going on.