There was no telling when they might start asking awkward questions.
The woman does have a gift for asking awkward questions.
Perhaps she was afraid he would ask her some awkward questions.
It could bring down on us a lot of awkward questions from high places.
She knew that, but long enough to put some people in place to ask awkward questions.
Instead she has to make dinner, and they ask awkward questions.
People were getting far too used to her here, and there might come a time when awkward questions would be asked.
My knowledge of history and myself made me ask awkward questions.
On the few occasions when he was alone with her she had asked him no awkward questions.
If he just disappears, awkward questions are likely to be asked, maybe even of the king.