There was no such uncertainty in her reply, however, which was given in her usual curt fashion: "All right.

You can trapse along home now and turn in." She turned the corner of the extension and disappeared.

The tall figure of the man wavered hesitatingly for a moment, and then vanished also.
But I was too much excited by curiosity to accept this unsatisfactory conclusion, and, hastily picketing Chu Chu a few rods from the front door, I ran after him, with an instinctive feeling that he had not gone far.

I was right.

A few paces distant he had halted in the same dubious, lingering way.