"Still, all circumstances considered, I'd get under the seat." "If you wish it, sir." "I wouldn't go so far as to say _that_: but 'tis my advice." And under the seat I crawled obediently.

"Now, then," said he, with an absurd air of one addressing vacancy; "if you didn' do it, who did ?" "I don't know, sir." "Then where's your difficulty ?" "But I saw a man staring in at the window--it was upstairs in a room close to the roof; and afterwards I found him on the roof, and he was all of a tremble, and in two minds, so he said, about pitching me over.

I showed him the way down.

If you please, sir," I broke off, "you're not to tell anyone about this, whatever happens!" "Eh?
Why not ?" "Because--" I hesitated.
"Friend of yours ?" "Not a friend, sir.

He's a young man, in the Army; and his aunt--she used to be very kind to me.