2/20 "If I was you, I shouldn't go out this afternoon; I'd just stay quietly indoors. There's a lot of rough people about--" Perhaps there was an undercurrent of warning, of painful pleading, in her toneless voice which penetrated in some way to the brain of the lodger, for Mr.Sleuth looked up, and an uneasy, watchful look came into his luminous grey eyes. That is, I will stay quietly at home, I am never at a loss to know what to do with myself so long as I can study the Book of Books." "Then you're not afraid about your eyes, sir ?" said Mrs.Bunting curiously. Somehow she was beginning to feel better. It comforted her to be up here, talking to Mr.Sleuth, instead of thinking about him downstairs. |