He was in a drunken stupor.
"Help Bill bring him, in," she said with stony calm.
Wilkinson and the other lifted the unconscious man, and staggering along a passage, awkwardly climbed the stairs.

They put him on his bed and were going out when Sadie stopped them.
"Thank you, Bill; hold the team for a few minutes," she said and turned to Wilkinson.

"I want you to wait in the office." Then she shut the door, and after unfastening Charnock's collar and vest stood looking at him for a minute or two.

He had not wakened, but she had seen him like this before and was not alarmed.

His face was flushed and the veins on his forehead were prominent; his clothes were crumpled and sprinkled with bits of hay.