'Ah! very true! But isn't it a little--Eh ?--for him; I don't mean you ?' A quick glance of her eye towards the spot where Steerforth was walking, with his mother leaning on his arm, showed me whom she meant; but beyond that, I was quite lost.

And I looked so, I have no doubt.
'Don't it--I don't say that it does, mind I want to know--don't it rather engross him?
Don't it make him, perhaps, a little more remiss than usual in his visits to his blindly-doting--eh ?' With another quick glance at them, and such a glance at me as seemed to look into my innermost thoughts.
'Miss Dartle,' I returned, 'pray do not think--' 'I don't!' she said.

'Oh dear me, don't suppose that I think anything! I am not suspicious.

I only ask a question.

I don't state any opinion.