No element of fear had entered into his emotion; nor had it been heightened by any superstitious sense.

Something deeper and more important by far had darkened his thoughtful eye and caused that ebb and flow of colour in a cheek unused, if Sweetwater read the man aright, to such quick and forcible changes.
Sweetwater took occasion, likewise, while the excitement was at its height, to mark what effect had been made on the servants by the action and conduct of young Cumberland.

"They know him better than we do," was his inner comment; "what do they think of his words, and what do they think of him ?" It was not so easy to determine as the anxious detective might wish.
Only one of them showed a simple emotion, and that one was, without any possibility of doubt, the cook.

She was a Roman Catholic, and was simply horrified by the sacrilege of which she had been witness.

There was no mistaking her feelings.