More than that he could not say.

He would not deny that he had certain ideas of his own as to the voyage; but if Cousin Diggory and his father thought it well to make no talk about the matter, it was not for him to say what were his thoughts about it.
"But we would tell nobody," Dorothy urged.

"Don't you think we could keep a secret, as well as you can ?" "That is just it, Cousin Dorothy! Don't you see, if I were to tell you, it would be a proof that I could not keep a secret?
And then, if you told it, I could not blame you for blabbing.

I don't say there is any secret; but if there is, I must keep it." "I know that you are going into danger, Reuben; else you would not have all those great guns they say there are, on board." "The great guns will keep us out of danger, you see.

The more guns, the less danger." "Come away, Agnes," Dorothy said, with an assumption of stateliness.