I slipped on an old riding skirt, and stole out quietly through that other room into the hall.

I thought I could get down the back stairs unobserved, and then out through the kitchen.

I had no idea you had placed a guard back there in the ell until I saw him." "A guard!" I broke in.

"There was no guard up here." "But there was--just beyond the head of the stairs.

One of your men too, for his jacket was pinned up, without buttons.