"The door opening into the stable yard was unbarred, Squire." "I thought it likely that it would be so, Knapp.

You have made it fast now, I suppose?
That is right.

Now lie down and get an hour or two of sleep; it is scarce likely that he will be back until late.
"That was the old woman, of course," he went on to his companion, when the door closed behind the constable.

"I thought it likely enough that he might tell her to leave a way for him to come in.

You told me that she had been with you a good many years.