"Do you put bottles and glasses on the table, and sit down quietly.

I will try to escape.

If they find you alone, they can prove nothing against you, and if I get safe off, you also are safe.

Is there any way out on to the roof?
No doubt the house is watched behind." "There is a trapdoor," the gentleman, in whose house they were, said, and led the way upstairs at full speed.

As he was unbolting the trap, Walter ran into a bedroom and seized an armful of blankets, then ran up the ladder to the trapdoor, and stepped out on to the roof.