I wish to heaven that I had rushed to the window! But the curtain screened it, as you can see, and so it never occurred to me.

Then I heard the step of Mrs.Douglas, and I could not let her enter the room.

It would have been too horrible." "Horrible enough!" said the doctor, looking at the shattered head and the terrible marks which surrounded it.

"I've never seen such injuries since the Birlstone railway smash." "But, I say," remarked the police sergeant, whose slow, bucolic common sense was still pondering the open window.

"It's all very well your saying that a man escaped by wading this moat, but what I ask you is, how did he ever get into the house at all if the bridge was up ?" "Ah, that's the question," said Barker.
"At what o'clock was it raised ?" "It was nearly six o'clock," said Ames, the butler.
"I've heard," said the sergeant, "that it was usually raised at sunset.
That would be nearer half-past four than six at this time of year." "Mrs.Douglas had visitors to tea," said Ames.