There was a detective, I remember, trying to trace the people who murdered that poor lady at Jane's old house since my return." "But who could it have been?
who could it have been ?" burst out Ralph, unheeding.

"They were all friends.

It is frightful to suspect one of them.

One could as easily suspect one's self.

Which of them all could have done a thing like that?
Out of them all, which was it ?" "Carr!" replied Charles, quietly, looking full at his father.
If a bomb-shell had fallen among us at that moment it could not have produced a greater effect than that one word, uttered so deliberately.
Sir George started in his bed, and clutched at the bedclothes with both hands.