But he still held her tightly to him with his right arm.
They began to discuss his plight and how he might best defend himself.
She was fully as fearful as he.

But she did not show it.

She must cheer him up, and she kept insisting that the police could not fix the murder on him, that they had nothing to go upon.

If they had, they would have already arrested him.

Certainly they knew what the servants and the village people were saying.