The wife's mother, I fancy, lives with them." "Is the house watched ?" "Oh dear, no.

It wouldn't do.

Certain people who come there are watched.

My opinion is that he knows nothing of this affair." "How do you account for this ?" The Assistant Commissioner nodded at the cloth rag lying before him on the table.
"I don't account for it at all, sir.

It's simply unaccountable.