Anyway, though of course I asked the usual questions of my guardians, they could, or would, tell me nothing.

Perhaps they didn't know.

All I could learn was that they had known my mother quite slightly--and that they had been much surprised when I was brought to them with the request that they would adopt me." "Do you desire to tell me, senor, why you left England ?" asked Donna Elvira.
"Yes; I want to," said Derrick, after a moment or two's silence.

"I feel as if I wanted to confide in someone.

Perhaps it's because you've been so kind to me, have--well, taken me on trust.