"By four or five in the afternoon, the people at the inn have done all for me that I want.

After that time, there is nobody in the house but myself." He shook hands with us.

The rector escorted him as far as the front door.
I slipped out while they were saying their last words, and joined Oscar, when he advanced alone into the garden.
"I want a breath of fresh air," I said.

"I'll go with you as far as the gate." He began to talk of Lucilla directly.

I surprised him by returning abruptly to the subject of his position at Browndown.
"Do you think it's wise," I asked, "to be all by yourself at night in such a lonely house as yours?
Why don't you have a manservant ?" "I detest strange servants," he answered.