Carford would frown and throw his eyes towards me, as though to ask if I were to hear these things, but the Duke refused his suggestion.

Nay, once he said in jest: "What I say is as safe with him as with you, my lord, or safer." I wondered to see Carford indignant.
"Why do you say safer, sir ?" he asked haughtily, while the colour on his cheeks was heightened.

"Is any man's honour more to be trusted than mine ?" "Ah, man, I meant nothing against your honour; but Simon here has a discretion that heaven does not give to everyone." Now, when I see a man so sensitive to suspicion as to find it in every careless word, I am set thinking whether he may not have some cause to fear suspicion.

Honesty expects no accusation.

Carford's readiness to repel a charge not brought caught my notice, and made me ponder more on certain other conferences to which also his Grace my patron was a stranger.