It was a question he found very hard to answer honestly.
Instead, I would take a different approach than answering honestly.
"We need you to think carefully and answer honestly," they were told.
"I'd like very much for you to help me find your father," she answered honestly.
"I have not seen him this morning," she answered honestly.
"You would have been my first choice," the master answered honestly.
"I do have to be somewhere in about an hour," he answered honestly.
We want every question answered honestly with all he can tell us.
Flustered he is able to honestly answer that they haven't.
The question was whether to answer honestly or do the two-step.