Will that do ?" "Not in the hall, miss, if you will excuse me." "Not in the hall!" "And not in the house either, if I may make so bold." "What do you mean ?" She turned impatiently, and appealed to me.

"Do _you_ understand him ?" John Jago signed to me imploringly to let him answer for himself.
"Bear with me, Miss Naomi," he said.

"I think I can make you understand me.

There are eyes on the watch, and ears on the watch, in the house; and there are some footsteps--I won't say whose--so soft, that no person can hear them." The last allusion evidently made itself understood.

Naomi stopped him before he could say more.
"Well, where is it to be ?" she asked, resignedly.