I was just winding a comforter round my throat when I heered the knock." "It did not occur to you to break in the door of your master's room when you got no answer and found it locked ?" "No it never, and you wouldn't have done it in my place." "You heard no sound of a shot ?" "Not down in the cellar.

I fancy I heered the sound of the clock falling.
It came to me all muffled like, though it frightened her rarely." He pointed downward to the kitchen.

"And it frightened the dog, too, started it barking." "Is that the dog I heard whining downstairs ?" "Maybe it is.

I've got it shut up in the cellar." "Whose dog is it ?" "His." Thalassa's eyes travelled towards Robert Turold's bedroom.
"Is it howling through grief ?" "More like from fright.

Dogs are like people, frightened of their own shadows, sometimes.