Is that so ?" Joel replied affirmatively.
"Does he speak to you, or you to him ?" "No, sir; but then I've never been acquainted with him." "Do you believe that he could have stolen that letter from your room ?" "I know that he could have done so, sir, but I don't like to think--" "That he did?
Well, possibly he did and possibly he didn't.

I shall endeavor to find out.

Meanwhile I must ask you to let this go no further.

You will go on as though this conversation had never occurred.
If I find that you are unjustly suspected I will summon you and ask your pardon, and the guilty one will be punished.

Professor Durkee here has pointed out to me that such conduct is totally foreign to his conception of your character, and has reminded me that your standing in class has been of the best since the beginning of the term.