We can only see this one--that's full of trouble." Monckton now began to yawn, for he wanted to be alone and think over the schemes that floated before him now.
"You are sleepy, sir," said Mrs.Dawson.

"I'll go and see your bed is all right." He thanked her and filled her glass.

She tossed it off like a man this time, and left him to doze in his chair.
Doze, indeed! Never did a man's eyes move to and fro more restlessly.
Every faculty was strung to the utmost.
At first as all the _dramatis personae_ he was in search of came out one after another from that gossip's tongue, he was amazed and delighted to find that instead of having to search for one of them in one part of England, and another in another, he had got them all ready to his hand.
But soon he began to see that they were too near each other, and some of them interwoven, and all the more dangerous to attack.
He saw one thing at a glance.

That it would be quite a mistake to settle a plan of action.

That is sometimes a great advantage in dealing with the unguarded.