He smoked a pipe of tobacco on a bench under the trees of the square, and giving an order that he should be called at five went up to his bedroom.
There was a key in the lock of the door, which Wogan turned; he also tilted a chair and wedged the handle.

He opened the window and looked out.

His room was on the first floor and not very high from the ground.
A man might possibly climb through the window.

Gaydon would assuredly close the shutters and the window, so that no one could force an entrance without noise.

Wogan accordingly did what Gaydon would assuredly have done, and when he blew out his candle found himself in consequence in utter darkness.