“So! so! my face speaks the truth, then? What an immense foundation of good there must be in the nature of a man who arrives at my age, and whose face has not yet lost the habit of speaking the truth!⁠—Come, Glyde! let us be candid one with the other. This secret of yours has sought

me

: I have not sought

it

. Let us say I am curious⁠—do you ask me, as your old friend, to respect your secret, and to leave it, once for all, in your own keeping?”