We have been waiting for some such word ever since our advertisement appeared.

It has not come." She gave him a quick interrogating glance, folded her hands and answered without further hesitation: "We had our reasons for silence, reasons which we thought quite justifiable.

But they don't hold good if we are to be brought into conflict with the police.

Mr.Duclos told me this morning that if we were driven to speak we must do so with complete honesty and without quibble.
What do you want to know ?" "Everything.

First, your sister-in-law's story, then her reasons for sending her child alone to the museum, as well as the cause of her flight before she could have heard of that poor child's fate.