The story moved his auditor much more than he had expected.

Mr Haredale often changed his attitude, rose and paced the room, returned again, desired him to repeat, as nearly as he could, the very words that Solomon had used, and gave so many other signs of being disturbed and ill at ease, that even Mr Willet was surprised.
'You did quite right,' he said, at the end of a long conversation, 'to bid them keep this story secret.

It is a foolish fancy on the part of this weak-brained man, bred in his fears and superstition.

But Miss Haredale, though she would know it to be so, would be disturbed by it if it reached her ears; it is too nearly connected with a subject very painful to us all, to be heard with indifference.

You were most prudent, and have laid me under a great obligation.