Such confidence demanded full confidence in return; the unwritten laws which governed the men amongst whom he had been brought up required it.
And the shape that confidence should take?
He must first disabuse his new friend's mind of criminal or unworthy cause for his going away.

For the sake of his own name and that of his dead father that should be done.
Then he would have to suggest the real cause.

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He would in this have to trust Mr.Stonehouse's honour for secrecy.