She has not a happy home, as it is, and it would be far worse if her father knew that it was she who had put us on our guard.

I must find out something myself, and then we can turn him out, without there being the least suspicion that Ciceley is mixed up in it." The next evening several Jacobite gentlemen rode in, and, as usual, had a long talk with Sir Marmaduke after supper.
"If this fellow is a spy," Charlie said to himself, "he will be wanting to hear what is said, and to do so he must either hide himself in the room, or listen at the door, or at one of the windows.

It is not likely that he will get into the room, for to do that he must have hidden himself before supper began.

I don't think he would dare to listen at the door, for anyone passing through the hall would catch him at it.

It must be at one of the windows." The room was at an angle of the house.