"There is something about these great empty rooms, and the silence of the place, that's getting on my nerves.

I start every time that great front-door bell clangs, or I hear an unfamiliar footstep in the hall.

God! What fools we have been," he added, with a sudden bitter strength.

"I couldn't have believed that I could ever have done anything so clumsy.

Fancy giving ourselves away to a fool like Engleton, a self-opinionated young cub scarcely out of his cradle." He felt his damp forehead.