If you are wise you will put out some of those candles.

They are entering the lane now.

Gad, Tommy, if they think your lad of spirit is here, I would not give much for your window-glass!' Mr.Thomasson, who had hastened to take the advice, and had extinguished all the candles but one, thus reducing the room to partial darkness, wrung his hands and moaned for answer.

'Where are the proctors ?' he said.

'Where are the constables?
Where are the--Oh, dear, dear, this is dreadful!' And certainly, even in a man of firmer courage a little trepidation might have been pardoned.