The Only Use of
inscrutable
in
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- He went to call indeed; but he was perhaps relieved to be denied admittance; perhaps, in his heart, he preferred to speak with Poole upon the doorstep and surrounded by the air and sounds of the open city, rather than to be admitted into that house of voluntary bondage, and to sit and speak with its inscrutable recluse.†
p. 47.7inscrutable = impossible to understand
Definition:
impossible to understand -- often when finding a person's facial expression or comments mysterious