I may have been mistaken, but I certainly thought I heard a noise, and when I pulled the curtains aside the window was not shut by three or four inches.

I will have a look through the shrubbery.

That fellow may have come back again.

Pull the curtains to after me." "I will go with you, Mark." "I would rather you didn't, father; it would only make me nervous.

I shan't go into the shrubbery and give them a chance of getting first shot.