"There can't be anybody at home; but it is strange they went off and did not even shut the front door." "I don't know what the Ranger girls would have said, if they knew it.
They would have had a fit at the bare idea of going away for ever so short a time, and leaving the house and furniture alone and the door unlocked." "Their furniture is here now, I suppose ?" "Yes, I suppose so--some of it, anyway, but I don't know how much furniture these people bought, of course." "Mr.Lee said he heard they had such magnificent things." "I heard so, but you hear a good deal that isn't so in Banbridge!" "That is true.

I suppose you knew the house and the Ranger girls' furniture so well that you could tell at a glance what was new and what wasn't ?" "Yes, I could." As with one impulse both women turned and peered through a green maze of trees and bushes at Samson Rawdy, several yards distant.
"Can you see him ?" whispered Mrs.Lee.
"Yes.

I think he's asleep.

He is sitting with his head all bent over." "He is--not--looking ?" "No." Mrs.Lee and Mrs.Van Dorn regarded each other.

Both looked at once ashamed and defiant before the other, then into each pair of eyes leaped a light of guilty understanding and perfect sympathy.