I will leave you here alone for a while, so as to divert any suspicion.

You will come, as usual, this evening, and be seen by your friends; I will only be here when the bag arrives, to open it.

Good-by, Mrs.Baker; it's a nasty bit of business, but it's all in the day's work.

I've seen worse, and, thank God, you're out of it." She heard his footsteps retreat into the outer office and die out of the platform; the jingle of his spurs, and the hollow beat of his horse's hoofs that seemed to find a dull echo in her own heart, and she was alone.
The room was very hot and very quiet; she could hear the warping and creaking of the shingles under the relaxing of the nearly level sunbeams.

The office clock struck seven.