I don't want him to know that there is anyone in the house till we get hold of him.

I am going to lie down on the sofa in the parlor.

The moment you hear footsteps you come and wake me." The clock in the kitchen had just struck two when the constable shook John Thorndyke.

"There are two horses just coming into the yard." "All right.

I opened a window in the room looking down into the yard before I lay down.