"Did you not hear a noise ?" "No," he rejoined.

"Where ?" She pointed to the little passage leading to the ante-chamber.

He instantly went thither, and examined the place, but without discovering any listener.
"There is no one," he said, as he returned.

"No one, in fact, could have obtained admittance without my knowledge, for my Spanish servant, Diego, in whom I can place full confidence, is stationed without." "I distrust that man, William," she observed.

"When I asked whom you thought had removed the letters, my own suspicions had attached to him." "I do not think he would have done it," Lord Roos replied.