"Why haven't I got somebody with me to enjoy it ?" At that laugh, at those words, the cook's fury in its fiercest heat became frozen by terror.

There was something superhuman in the doctor's diabolical joy.

Even _he_ felt the wild horror in the woman's eyes as they rested on him.
"What's the matter with you ?" he asked.

She muttered and mumbled--and, shrinking away from him, crept towards the door.

As she approached the window, a man outside passed by it on his way to the house.