'Twould be a pretty thing if the police didn't go out, just because it was cold!" "I--I was thinking of The Avenger," said Mrs.Bunting.She looked at her husband fixedly.

Somehow she had felt impelled to utter those true words.
"He don't take no heed of heat nor cold," said Bunting sombrely.
"I take it the man's dead to all human feeling--saving, of course, revenge." "So that's your idea about him, is it ?" She looked across at her husband.

Somehow this dangerous, this perilous conversation between them attracted her strangely.

She felt as if she must go on with it.
"D'you think he was the man that woman said she saw?
That young man what passed her with a newspaper parcel ?" "Let me see," he said slowly.

"I thought that 'twas from the bedroom window a woman saw him ?" "No, no.