confidentialness

Sometimes the confidentialness was altogether spontaneous on the part of the children, and in other cases I took the initiative, drawing out the confidence, by intervening on occasion to console and help, especially when I saw that the sensibility had been wounded, or there was moral puzzle.

"Quite between ourselves, I'll be doing nothing of the sort," I said, with mock confidentialness.

We should ask ourselves whether in spite of all its confidentialness Trilby makes an intimate revelation.

My companion went on playing with the pistol in front of him, and talking with the same rather creepy confidentialness.