If you have no information to give to me, very well, that ends it; all you have to do is to say so." "Who sent you here ?" "No one, as I have repeated once or twice.

If anyone had, I would give him my opinion of the errand when I got back.

You refuse, then, to tell me anything about the explosive that powdered the gold ?" "Refuse?
Of course I refuse! What did you expect?
I suppose the man who sent you here thought, because you were an engaging young woman and I an old dotard, I would gabble to you the results of a life's work.

Oh, no, no, no; but I am not an old dotard.

I have many years to live yet." "I hope so.