He leaned a little forward with a hand on either knee.
"I don't exactly know what I can tell you," he remarked.

"I take it, then, that you were well acquainted with Mr.Fynes ?" "I used to know him quite well," Penelope answered, "and naturally I am very much upset.

When I read in the paper an account of your interview with the reporter, I could see at once that you were not telling him everything.

Why should you, indeed?
A man does not want every detail of his life set out in the newspapers just because he has become connected with a terrible tragedy." "You're a very sensible young lady, Miss Morse, if you will allow me to say so," Mr.Coulson declared.

"You were expecting to see something of Mr.Fynes over here, then ?" "I had an appointment to lunch with him today," she answered.