May I come up ?" "No, don't.

What do you want?
Why have you come over ?" "Nobody knows I've come.

I got out of the bed-room window and ran across." "What for ?" "I can't tell you down here, Dick; I must come up." He ran away softly over the grass, and came back in a few minutes with one of the short ladders, of whose whereabouts he knew as well as Dick, and planting it against the window-sill, he ran up and thrust in his head.
"I say, Dick," he whispered, "I couldn't sleep to-night, and I went to the window and looked out." "So did I.

Well, what of that?
Here, be quick and go, or father will hear you, and we shall get into trouble." "There's going to be something done to-night." "What! the horses again, or a fire ?" "I don't know, only I'm sure I saw two men creep along on their hands and knees down to the water." "Pigs," said Dick, contemptuously.
"They weren't.

Think I can't tell a man from a pig!" "Not in the dark." "I tell you they were men." "Pigs!" "Men! and they went down to the water." "To drink, stupid! They were pigs! They look just like men crawling in the dark!" "Pigs don't get in punts and pole themselves along the mere!" "You didn't see two men get in a punt and pole themselves along!" "No, but I heard them quite plain." "Well, and suppose you did, what then ?" "I don't know.