He sought to detain her by talking about the boy's curls; but she went away, taking the child with her.

As she closed the door he groaned heavily, and she reopened it to ask if he felt unwell.

He answered in the negative, and she left him.

The last person to see Mr.Pettigrew alive was Eliza Day, the housemaid.

She took a letter to him between twelve and one o'clock.