"Will you tell me what Mrs. Grey is afraid of?"
"I don't see how I can."
Miss Silver looked at her in a different way. She had the air of a kind aunt - of Aunt Emmeline when she was about to give you five pounds at Christmas. She said in a voice that was nice as well as prim, "I am a great admirer of Lord Tennyson. The mot juste - how often one comes across it in his writings. 'Oh, trust me all in all, or not at all.' I find that I often have to quite that to my clients. The most complete frankness is necessary."
(from The Case is Closed, by Patricia Wentworth)
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