You need not be afraid that what you have told me will come out.

It is curious, and that is all, and I will look after the fellow a bit.

Don't think anything more about it.

It is just the sort of thing it is well to know, but I expect there is no harm in it, one way or the other.

Of course, he must have known your father before he came to us, and may have business of some sort with him.