I may as well give him my assurance, then, that he is mistaken." "Why should your assurance go for more than mine?
Give him nothing of the kind." "I may give him, at any rate, my assurance that I believe your word." "If you do believe it, you can do so." "But you repeat your assertion that you saw nothing of Mountjoy just before his disappearance ?" "This is an amount of cross-questioning which I do not take in good part, and to which I will not submit." Here Scarborough affected to laugh loudly.

"I know nothing of your brother, and care almost as little.

He has professed to admire a young lady to whom I am not indifferent, and has, I believe, expressed a wish to make her his wife.
He is also her cousin, and the lady in question has, no doubt, been much interested about him.

It is natural that she should be so." "Quite natural--seeing that she has been engaged to him for twelve months." "Of that I know nothing.

But my interest about your brother has been because of her.