'And what troubles me--I am not sure that the other has gone entirely away.

By the time it got the length of the head of the stair the tread was plainly single.' 'Ahem--blockaded ?' asked the lawyer.
'A siege _en regle_!' I exclaimed.
'Let us come farther from the door,' said Romaine, 'and reconsider this damnable position.

Without doubt, Alain was this moment at the door.

He hoped to enter and get a view of you, as if by accident.

Baffled in this, has he stayed himself, or has he planted Dawson here by way of sentinel ?' 'Himself, beyond a doubt,' said I.