'You must know more of my affairs than you allow.

You must know my curiosity to be justified on many grounds.

Will you not be frank with me ?' 'My son,' said the old gentleman, 'I will be very frank with you on matters within my competence; on those of which I know nothing it does not require much discretion to be silent.

I will not fence with you, I take your meaning perfectly; and what can I say, but that we are all in God's hands, and that His ways are not as our ways?
I have even advised with my superiors in the church, but they, too, were dumb.

It is a great mystery.' 'Is she mad ?' I asked.
'I will answer you according to my belief.