And if he does ask me questions, I'm not obliged to answer them, am I?
Do you think that I'm to be turned inside out like a schoolgirl ?" "Sir Leslie is very clever, and he is very unscrupulous," the girl answered.

"I wish you weren't going! I believe that he wants to find out things." Mrs.Phillimore frowned uneasily.
"I'm not a fool!" she said.

"He's welcome to all he can get to know through me.

I don't know what you want to try to make me uncomfortable for, Hester, I'm sure.

Sir Leslie has never betrayed the least curiosity about Mr.Mannering, and I don't believe that he's any such idea in his head.