Mr.Hyde made his tread as heavy as a man's.

Several evenings, when Susan was alone in the house, he "scared her stiff," as she declared, by doing this.

He would sit in the middle of the kitchen floor, with his terrible eyes fixed unwinkingly upon hers for an hour at a time.

This played havoc with her nerves, but poor Susan really held him in too much awe to try to drive him out.

Once she had dared to throw a stick at him and he had promptly made a savage leap towards her.