For when you were gone in he came up to the guard and asked who you were, and by what right you had entered.

The lieutenant sent a mail to tell me so, and I met him in the passage as I went out." "Who was the fellow ?" "Oh! a man called Dangerfield.

The lieutenant very prudently detained him; and I went across and questioned him before I went to His Majesty.
I know nothing of the man, except that he hath been convicted, for I saw the branding in his hand when we examined him.

We let him go again immediately." "He knows my name ?" Mr.Chiffinch smiled.
"We are not so foolish as that, Mr.Mallock.He thinks you have some place at Court; but we did not satisfy him as to your name." I said nothing; for there was nothing to say.
"You had best be very careful, Mr.Mallock," went on the page, standing up again.

"You have been mixing a great deal with unpopular folks.