'For instance,' he added, 'I perceive that this window is broken, badly broken, and from the outside.
Now, how could that have occurred ?' 'If you will kindly hear reason, Mr Racksole,' said Dimmock in his best diplomatic manner, 'I will endeavour to explain things to you.

I regarded your first question to me when you entered my room as being offensively put, but I now see that you had some justification.' He smiled politely.

'I was passing along this corridor about eleven o'clock, when I found Miss Racksole in a difficulty with the hotel servants.

Miss Racksole was retiring to rest in this room when a large stone, which must have been thrown from the Embankment, broke the window, as you see.

Apart from the discomfort of the broken window, she did not care to remain in the room.