I stared.

I think the chap did not mean to do it; that he was only trying his strength for pastime.

But now, Jan, the odd part of the business is, how did West get in?
If there's not another door, he must have got down the chimney." Jan went on with his compounding, and made no response.
"And if there _is_ a door, he must have been mortal sly over it," resumed the young gentleman.

"He must have gone right out from here, and in at the side gate of the garden, and got in that way.

I wonder what he did it for ?" "It isn't any business of ours," said Jan.
"Then I think it is," retorted Master Cheese.