There are, for example, the fortifications at Torres Vedras." "Ah yes! I have heard of them.

Tell me about them, Count." "Tell you about them, dear lady?
Shall I carry perfumes to the rose?
What can I tell you that you do not know so much better than myself ?" "Indeed, I know nothing.

Sir Terence is ridiculously secretive," she assured him, with a little frown of petulance.

She realised that her husband did not treat her as an intelligent being to be consulted upon these matters.

She was his wife, and he had no right to keep secrets from her.