(Do you suppose I felt scruples in such an emergency as this?
Oh, pooh! pooh! who but a fool would have felt anything of the sort!) I listened with both my ears.

Through a window at the side of the house, I heard the sound of voices.

Advancing noiselessly on the turf, I heard the voice of Dubourg.

He was answered by a woman.
Aha, I had caught her.

Lucilla herself! "Wonderful!" I heard him say.