i presume by this method that you'll be able to uncover some new clue, either a handkerchief or an article of clothing.  in other words, something which your men have not been able to find as yet.
allow me to inform you that my daughter is not a fugitive.
i understand very well. only i don't want any rash assumptions to be made.
yes, please.
this looks to me like a good sign. don't you think so? as far as i'm concerned, anyone who reads the bible could not have committed an act of impropriety. why.  as a matter of fact, i remember when i was in china, many years ago, i happened to be involved in a similar situation, concerning an english woman, the wife of ambassador shafford, a good friend of mine. there, too, we found a bible.  and i said at the time that whatever had happened, that clue alone had definitely ruled out the possibility of.  suicide. why, it was logical, i said, that whoever reads the bible believes in god and therefore.  no? you don't believe it? well, as a matter of fact, i was right.  the woman was found two days later. it was a case of amnesia.
i don't know him.
i don't want to know him.
we are in the hands of god.
however that may be, at this moment my daughter has more need of her father than of you.
i think it would be worth my while to take a run over to palermo. the chief of police there is a very good friend of mine and i'm sure he'll do whatever he can. i feel we're wasting our time here.  excuse me, lieutenant. i hope we see each other again under better circumstances. and thanks for everything.