"It comes to this--you suspect Sir Gilbert ?" "What I say," he answered, "is this: he may have had something to do with the affair.

You cannot tell.

But you and me knows he was near the place--coming from its direction--at the time the murder would be in the doing.

And--there is nobody knows but you--and me!" "What are you going to do about it ?" I asked.
He had another period of reflection before he replied, and when he spoke it was to the accompaniment of a warning look.
"It's an ill-advised thing to talk about rich men," said he.

"Yon man not only has money of his own, in what you might call considerable quantity, but his wife he brought with him is a woman of vast wealth, they tell me.
It would be no very wise action on your part to set rumours going, Moneylaws, unless you could substantiate them." "What about yourself ?" I asked.