I did not think it was worth while disturbing you, as you are so easily alarmed; but it is all over now, and the servants are shutting up the house again.

I will tell you all about it in the morning.

Go to bed again at once, or you will catch cold.

Good-night." Directly Miss Penfold had gone upstairs a hubbub of talk burst out from the female servants.
"It's disgraceful, John! With that great gun you ought to have shot them all dead." "It went off by itself," John said, "just as I was going to level it." "Went off by itself!" the cook said scornfully.

"It never went off of itself when it was hanging above your bed.