The two gentlemen started for London.
"What do you think of Mr.Bowmore's new servant ?" asked the Captain as they drove away from the cottage.

"I don't like the look of the fellow." "I didn't particularly notice him," Percy answered.
There was a pause.

When the conversation was resumed, it turned on common-place subjects.

The Captain looked uneasily out of the carriage window.

Percy looked uneasily at the Captain.
They had left Dartford about two miles behind them, when Percy noticed an old gabled house, sheltered by magnificent trees, and standing on an eminence well removed from the high-road.