My mouth gets dry with the talking." I handed him the glass, and he drank it down.
"That's better," he said.

"Well, I waited for a quarter of an hour, or more, when suddenly there came a noise like people struggling inside the house.

Next moment the door was flung open and two men appeared, one of whom was Drebber, and the other was a young chap whom I had never seen before.

This fellow had Drebber by the collar, and when they came to the head of the steps he gave him a shove and a kick which sent him half across the road.

'You hound,' he cried, shaking his stick at him; 'I'll teach you to insult an honest girl!' He was so hot that I think he would have thrashed Drebber with his cudgel, only that the cur staggered away down the road as fast as his legs would carry him.