She seemed much disappointed by his lack of information.

He was careful not to tell her that Mr.Flexen had inquired of him whether he knew of any entanglement between Lord Loudwater and a woman.

Thanks to his imagination he was a young man of uncommon discretion, and it was plain that she was suffering anxiety enough.
At the end of her fruitless questioning she sighed and said: "Of course, the whole affair is of no great interest to you really." "It isn't of very great interest to me," said Mr.Manley.

"You see, the victim of the crime, if it was a crime, was such an uninteresting creature.

Nature, as I've told you before, intended him for a bull, changed her mind when it was too late to make a satisfactory alteration, and botched it.