I will not ask where you have buried your treasures.
I will merely say to you that I know you have treasures and that they are buried.

Is it not so?
You need not be afraid of me." Szilard was a little taken aback by this unexpected turn.

Could it be sheer curiosity, he thought?
"I have nothing to be afraid of, countess," remarked Szilard, smiling, "I have no buried secrets.

I was a young man once, that is all.

I have had my foolish illusions, like other people, and like other people I have cured myself of them." "Nay, nay, sir, now you are not quite sticking to the truth; you are _not_ cured of them.