I want to found an opinion on what you tell me.

Then, it's not so?
Well! I am very glad to know it.' 'It certainly is not the fact,' said I, perplexed, 'that I am accountable for Steerforth's having been away from home longer than usual--if he has been: which I really don't know at this moment, unless I understand it from you.

I have not seen him this long while, until last night.' 'No ?' 'Indeed, Miss Dartle, no!' As she looked full at me, I saw her face grow sharper and paler, and the marks of the old wound lengthen out until it cut through the disfigured lip, and deep into the nether lip, and slanted down the face.

There was something positively awful to me in this, and in the brightness of her eyes, as she said, looking fixedly at me: 'What is he doing ?' I repeated the words, more to myself than her, being so amazed.
'What is he doing ?' she said, with an eagerness that seemed enough to consume her like a fire.

'In what is that man assisting him, who never looks at me without an inscrutable falsehood in his eyes?
If you are honourable and faithful, I don't ask you to betray your friend.