It almost choked her, but she kept on bravely.

"People say strange and bad things about you.

No one knows"-- she trembled under the painful inquiry of his eyes.

Then she gained courage and went on, for she must make it clear she trusted him, that she took him at his word, before she told him of the peril before him--"No one knows where you came from...
and it is nobody's business.

Some people do not believe in you.