You have a shrewd guess how I have acted in that knowledge.

May I ask you to judge from the character of my action, something of the nature of that knowledge, which I have no call, nor yet no title, to share with you ?" I cannot convey a sense of the rugged conviction and judicial emphasis of Dr.Urquart's speech.

To those who did not hear him, it may appear as if he fed me on enigmas; to myself, who heard, I seemed to have received a lesson and a compliment.
"I thank you," I said.

"I feel you have said as much as possible, and more than I had any right to ask.

I take that as a mark of confidence, which I will try to deserve.