When her voice ceased he moved uneasily, and said: "I haven't been feeling well for the last few days." He might have meant this as an opening to a complete confidence; but Mrs Verloc laid her head on the pillow again, and staring upward, went on: "That boy hears too much of what is talked about here.

If I had known they were coming to-night I would have seen to it that he went to bed at the same time I did.

He was out of his mind with something he overheard about eating people's flesh and drinking blood.

What's the good of talking like that ?" There was a note of indignant scorn in her voice.

Mr Verloc was fully responsive now.
"Ask Karl Yundt," he growled savagely.
Mrs Verloc, with great decision, pronounced Karl Yundt "a disgusting old man." She declared openly her affection for Michaelis.