"I can answer your questions, but I will not." "Harry Feversham is my friend." "General Feversham is his father, yet he knows only half the truth.

Miss Eustace was betrothed to him, and she knows no more.

I pledged my word to Harry that I would keep silence." "It is not curiosity which makes me ask." "I am sure that, on the contrary, it is friendship," said the lieutenant, cordially.
"Nor that entirely.

There is another aspect of the matter.

I will not ask you to answer my questions, but I will put a third one to you.