"What are you doing?
Why was I not warned?
Surely you could tell?
Someone will suffer for this.

The man must be kept quiet.

Are the doorways closed?
All the doorways?
He must be kept perfectly quiet.

He must not be told.

Has he been told anything ?" The man with the fair beard made some inaudible remark, and Graham looking over his shoulder saw approaching a short, fat, and thickset beardless man, with aquiline nose and heavy neck and chin.