Might I ask you why you dismissed him ?' 'I don't know why I dismissed him.' 'You don't know?
Oh! come now! I'm only asking because I thought you might be able to give me a hint why he turned up uninvited at my ball.
Sorry if I'm too inquisitive.' 'Not at all, Mr Levi; but I really don't know.

I only sort of felt that he was a suspicious character.

I dismissed him on instinct, as it were.
See ?' Without answering this question Mr Levi asked another.

'If this Jules is such a well-known person,' he said, 'how could the feller hope to come to my ball without being recognized ?' 'Give it up,' said Racksole promptly.
'Well, I'll be moving on,' was Mr Sampson Levi's next remark.

'Good day, and thank ye.