These are the keys.

Richard knows them all, and is entirely reliable.

I will ask you to excuse me till--for a day or two." Mr.Wickersham had been revolving in his mind what he should say to the old gentleman.

He had about decided to speak very plainly to him on the folly of such narrowness.

Something, however, in the General's air again deterred him: a thinning of the nostril; an unwonted firmness of the mouth.