Perhaps it was her face that betrayed emotion, for after a moment of silence, the man answered.
"What's the matter?
You're as nervous as a child tonight, Ruth ?" "Isn't there reason enough to make me nervous ?" she demanded.

"A robber--Heaven knows what--running at large in the house ?" "H'm!" murmured the man.

"Devilish queer that you should get so excited all at once.

No, it's something else.

I've trained you too well for you to go to pieces like this over nothing.