The door was open, the house dark, and she in a fit on the floor, saying there'd been a crash upstairs.

Then his door was locked, and I couldn't get an answer.

Wasn't that enough ?" "Hardly enough to warrant your saying that you feared your master had been murdered--unless you expected him to be murdered." "I didn't say that," replied Thalassa with unusual quickness.

"All I said was that I was afeered something had happened to him.

There was reason for thinking that.