Peter would not do any harmhe was as guileless as a blue-eyed Angora kitten, and above all, he was willing and anxious to get into the game.

Even the most guileless of lodge-keepers would be bound to think it rather curious that I should be creeping out at this time of night accompanied by his master's bicycle.

There was something so earnest and guileless in the way this was said that Nicholas could not resist it.