Indeed I was by way of asking too many questions (the most oblique and delicate was that which elicited my host's name, Ewbank), nor was I careful enough to conceal their drift.

事实上，我问了太多问题（最隐晦和微妙的问题是引出了我的主人 Ewbank 的名字）， 也没有足够小心地掩饰他们的偏差。