"Was the sky black when you came in, Richard ?" "I do not know," said Richard, and nobody doubted that he told the truth.
"It had begun to darken before we came up from the river." said Charlotte Benson.

"The clouds were rising rapidly as we came in.

It will be a fearful tempest." "Are the windows all shut ?" said Sophie to the servant.
"I should think so," exclaimed Kilian.

"The heat is horrid." "Yes, it is suffocating," said Richard, getting up.
As he went out of the dining-room, some one, I think Henrietta, said, "Well, I hope Mr.Langenau will get in safely; he was out on the river when we were on the hill." The storm was so sudden and so furious that everybody was concerned at hearing this; even Kilian made some exclamation of alarm.
"Does he know anything about a boat ?" he asked of Richard, who had paused in the doorway, hearing what was said.
"I have no idea," said Richard, shortly, but he did not go away.
"It isn't the sail-boat that he has, of course," said Kilian, thoughtfully.

"He always goes out to row, I believe." "Why, no," said Charlotte Benson, "he's in the sail-boat; don't you remember saying, Henrietta, how bright the gleam of the sunset was on the sail, and all the water was so dark ?" Kilian came to his feet very suddenly at these words.
"That's a bad business," he said quickly to his brother.