"I've been watching them, with young Bewery.

He put me up to it.

Come on! I want to see if you know the man who's a stranger." Harker crossed the room to a chest of drawers, and after some rummaging pulled something out.
"Here!" he said, handing some articles to Bryce.

"Put those on over your boots.

Thick felt overshoes--you could walk round your own mother's bedroom in those and she'd never hear you.