She was very much mistaken if some of the people who came there oftenest were quite as honest as they might be, but she wouldn't have it known that she had said so, for the world.

Then there were some rambling allusions to a rejected sweetheart, who had threatened to go a soldiering--a final promise of knocking at the door early in the morning--and 'Good night.' The child did not feel comfortable when she was left alone.

She could not help thinking of the figure stealing through the passage down stairs; and what the girl had said did not tend to reassure her.

The men were very ill-looking.

They might get their living by robbing and murdering travellers.