But there I stopped, as I never discuss my lodgers.

Yet I must acknowledge that my curiosity had been roused by all this talk, and I began to watch the woman, who I soon saw was in what I would call a flustered state of mind, and as unhappy as anyone could be who hadn't suffered some great bereavement.
But still I wasn't really alarmed, being misled by the name she gave, which was Clery.
Night before last I went to bed early.

I am a heavy sleeper, as I need to be with those cars pounding by the house every few minutes.

But there are certain noises which wake me, and I found myself all of a sudden sitting up in bed and listening with all my ears.

Everything was quiet, even on the elevated road; but when the next train came thundering along, I heard, piercing shrilly through the rumble and roar, that same sharp _ping_ which had wakened me.