Would it be possible for me to get out that way ?" "Well, yes, sir; I think so." The man hesitated; he felt a slight, a very sight, feeling of misgiving.

He looked at Daisy, flushed and smiling, happy and unconcerned, and then at Mrs.Bunting.She was very pale; but surely her lodger's sudden seizure was enough to make her feel worried.

Hopkins felt the half-sovereign pleasantly tickling his palm.

The Paris Prefect of Police had given him only half-a-crown -- mean, shabby foreigner! "Yes, sir; I can let you out that way," he said at last, "and p'raps when you're standing out in the air, on the iron balcony, you'll feel better.

But then, you know, sir, you'll have to come round to the front if you wants to come in again, for those emergency doors only open outward." "Yes, yes," said Mr.Sleuth hurriedly.