He could not say he didn't trust her, because that simply was not true. But he didn't want to involve her, not in such a dangerous matter as this. At least for his indiscretions at the Embassy, he could not be tried by an English court. "Madam, I would tell you, but it is best I do not. A merchant travelling back and forth from France to England... sometimes finds stowaways." He shrugs, "And it is often out of my way to return them to their homeland. So I leave them at port and expect them make their own way back. It is not an uncommon practise."