He continued to pump poor Passepartout, and learned that he really knew little or nothing of his master, who lived a solitary existence in London, was said to be rich, though no one knew whence came his riches, and was mysterious and impenetrable in his affairs and habits. Fix felt sure that Phileas Fogg would not land at Suez, but was really going on to Bombay.
Il fit encore parler le Français et acquit la certitude que ce garçon ne connaissait aucunement son maître, que celui-ci vivait isolé à Londres, qu'on le disait riche sans savoir l'origine de sa fortune, que c'était un homme impénétrable, etc. Mais, en même temps, Fix put tenir pour certain que Phileas Fogg ne débarquait point à Suez, et qu'il allait réellement à Bombay.