As I advanced my foot rattled the rubble that lay in the gateway, and he turned round with a start and faced me.
He was not a man whom you could put out of countenance, and his face changed no more than if he had been expecting me there for a twelvemonth; but there was something in his eyes which let me know that he would have paid a good price to have me back on the brae path again.
"Hullo!" said I, "what are you doing here ?" "I may ask you that," said he.
"I came up because I saw your face at the window." "And I because, as you may well have observed, I have very much interest for all that has to do with the military, and, of course, castles are among them.

You will excuse me for one moment, my dear Jack." And he stepped out suddenly through the hole in the wall, so as to be out of my sight.
But I was very much too curious to excuse him so easily.

I shifted my ground swiftly to see what it was that he was after.

He was standing outside, and waving his hand frantically, as in a signal.
"What are you doing ?" I cried; and then, running out to his side, I looked across the moors to see whom he was beckoning to.
"You go too far, sir," said he, angrily; "I didn't thought you would have gone so far.

A gentleman has the freedom to act as he choose without your being the spy upon him.