You hold your tongue and don't let me so much as hear you breathe the next twenty-four hours.

I'll go and write that telegram.' Philip thought it best not to let any one hear him breathe.

By this means he heard the telegram when nurse read it aloud to the cook.
'Peter Graham, Esq., Hotel Wagram, Brussels.
Miss Lucy lost.

Please come home immediately.
PHILKINS.
That's all right, isn't it ?' 'I don't see why you sign it Philkins.

You're only the nurse--I'm the head of the house when the family's away, and my name's Bobson,' the cook said.
There was a sound of torn paper.
'There--the paper's tore.