He may have harbored suspicions but he'd closeted his curiosity.
When, on the 9th of February 1670, Schumacher delivered the Kongelov to Christian V., the king bade all those about him withdraw, and after being closeted a good hour with Schumacher, appointed him his "Obergeheimesekreter."
In Landis, the children were closeted away for fear of being snatched and sold into slavery.
At the start of the century such demands would have been judged proper solely to the closeted capacities of millwrights and turners.