"Have you any idea what can have happened to him ?" "Not in the least.

Have you ?" "None at all, but--" "But what ?" "I was the last person who saw him." "You saw him last!" "At least, I know no one who saw him after me." "Have you told them ?" "I have told no one but you.

I have come down here to Cheltenham on purpose to tell you." "Why me ?" she said, as though struck with fear at such an assertion on his part.
"I must tell some one, and I have not known whom else to tell.

His father appears not at all anxious about him.

His brother I do not altogether trust.