Once a policeman peered into my face suspiciously.
And I dared not return home, I dared not! No, no; I promise not to embarrass you with any more tears." She brushed her eyes with a rapid movement.
Warrington's success as a dramatist was due largely to his interest in all things that passed under his notice.

Nothing was too trivial to observe.

The tragic threads of human life, which escaped the eyes of the passing many or were ignored by them, always aroused his interest and attention; and more than once he had picked up one of these threads and followed it to the end.

Out of these seemingly insignificant things he often built one of those breathless, nerve-gripping climaxes which had, in a few years' time, made him famous.

In the present case he believed that he had stumbled upon something worthy his investigation.