The butler had better wait outside.

Tell him to warn Mr.Cecil Barker, Mrs.Douglas, and the housekeeper that we may want a word with them presently.

Now, gentlemen, perhaps you will allow me to give you the views I have formed first, and then you will be able to arrive at your own." He impressed me, this country specialist.

He had a solid grip of fact and a cool, clear, common-sense brain, which should take him some way in his profession.

Holmes listened to him intently, with no sign of that impatience which the official exponent too often produced.
"Is it suicide, or is it murder--that's our first question, gentlemen, is it not?
If it were suicide, then we have to believe that this man began by taking off his wedding ring and concealing it; that he then came down here in his dressing gown, trampled mud into a corner behind the curtain in order to give the idea someone had waited for him, opened the window, put blood on the--" "We can surely dismiss that," said MacDonald.
"So I think.