He knows of the sloop--where it lies and when it sails; and I trow he is laying plans of his own.

It were better not to ask of these.

I would rather walk in ignorance.

A man cannot betray, however inadvertently, what he knows not, and the subtle skill in questioning possessed by our reverend prior might win the secret from any unskilled person ere he knew he had revealed it.

I know not what he means to do, nor shall I seek to know.