I presume you kept a strict watch on both last night.

You let nothing escape you ?" "Nothing that one could see from this room." With a thoughtful air, the lawyer swung to the door behind them.

As it latched, the face of Mr.Ransom sharpened.

He even put out a hand and rested it on a table standing near, as if to support himself in anticipation of what the lawyer would say now that they were again closeted together.
Mr.Harper was not without his reasons for a corresponding agitation, but he naturally controlled himself better, and it was with almost a judicial air that he made this long-expected but long-deferred suggestion: "You had better tell me now, and as explicitly as possible, just what is in your mind.

It will prevent all misunderstanding between us, as well as any injudicious move on my part." Mr.Ransom hesitated, leaning hard on the table; then, with a sudden burst, he exclaimed: "It sounds like folly, and you may think that my troubles have driven me mad.