If you can wait here an hour or two I shall go to headquarters, and then to the safe-makers.
After that I shall return; and you can go away easier in your mind, for I shall be here." When he had gone, we two, Miss Trelawny and I, remained in silence.

At last she raised her eyes and looked at me for a moment; after that I would not have exchanged places with a king.

For a while she busied herself round the extemporised bedside of her father.

Then, asking me to be sure not to take my eyes off him till she returned, she hurried out.
In a few minutes she came back with Mrs.Grant and two maids and a couple of men, who bore the entire frame and furniture of a light iron bed.

This they proceeded to put together and to make.