They paused, however, at the door at the sight of the lifeless figure on the couch.
"We are saved that trouble," one said, "we have come too late." The masked figure approached the couch and bent over the figure.
"Yes," he said, "she is dead, and so much the better." Then he returned with the others to Walter.
"He breathes yet," he said.

"He needs a harder blow than that you gave him to finish him.

Let him lie here for a while, while you gather your booty together; then we will carry him off.

There is scarcely a soul alive in the country round, and none will note us as we pass.

I would not despatch him here, seeing that his body would be found with wounds upon it, and even in these times some inquiry might be made; therefore it were best to finish him elsewhere.