He was white and trembling all the time.

I thought him an arrant coward." The Professor smiled beatifically as he glanced around.

He had the air of one propounding an unanswerable problem.
"You hear what Miss Lenora says?
I ask you whether a man who even knew the meaning of the word fear could have carried out these ghastly crimes ?" "I have known cases," Quest observed, "where the most cold-blooded criminals in the world have been stricken with the most deadly fear when it has come to a question of any personal danger.

However," he added, "here comes our friend French.

I have an idea that he has something to tell us." They glanced expectantly towards the door as French entered.