You are ingenious at tormenting.

I am bewildered and lost amid these half disclosures." "Hush, Geoffrey! these walls have ears.

I, too, am tortured, maddened by your questions.

You are too imprudent--too impulsive, to trust with matters of such vital importance; I have revealed too much already.

Try and forget the events of this morning; nor let your uncle discover by look, word or gesture, that you are in possession of his secret.