"The house is all locked up, and there is no other house near by.

Come, what are you afraid of?
You are worrying and upsetting yourself over nothing.

I'll bring you up your supper, and some whisky with it.

And the sooner you leave this cursed hole of a place, the better it will be." He crossed over to the fireplace and poked the coal into a red glow, and then turned to leave the room.

It was plain that his words had some effect on Robert Turold, and he made an effort to restore his dignity before the witness of his humiliation left him.
"No doubt you are right, Thalassa," he said in his usual tone.