He never said.

And he wasn't the man, with all his soft ways, you'd like to ask about such a thing.
By the look of it you wouldn't think he cared about it a bit.

He took it very easy, read half his time, and had no sign about him that he wasn't perfectly satisfied.

He intended when he got out to lead a new life, the chaplain said, and be the means of keeping other men right and straight.
One day we had a chance of a word together.

He got the soft side of the chaplain, who thought he wanted to convert me and take me out of my sulky and obstinate state of mind.