They said as much and wrote it on the tombstone." "Do you mean that there was ever a doubt about it ?" said the young lady uncomfortably.
"They said he died, so he must have died," said old Hodder, sipping his tea.

"It was all talk to the likes of me.

Young Master Roger wasn't of the dying sort." "He went abroad, I hear ?" she asked.
"So they say.

It's a score of years or more since.

I tell 'ee, Missy, young Master Roger wouldn't have stood by to see me turned out like this; he'd have--" Here there was a click at the gate and a long shadow fell on the footpath.