It did not occur to me when first he was missed that the matter would have been of such importance.

Now it is too late." "I suppose that you ought to have told his father." "I think that I ought to have done so.

But at any rate I have come to explain it all to you.

It was necessary that I should tell some one.
There seems to be no reason to suspect that the man has been killed." "Oh, I hope not; I hope not that." "He has been spirited away--out of the way of his creditors.

For myself I think that it has all been done with his father's connivance.