They were only secured, however, by a wooden beam dropped into a couple of sockets on the inside." "But how did you open them ?" asked Clementina.
"Your Highness, I have, after all, a pair of arms," said O'Toole.

"I just pressed on the doors till--" "Till the sockets gave ?" "No, till the beam broke," said he, and Clementina laughed.
"That's my six foot four!" said she.

O'Toole did not understand.

But he smiled with great condescension and dignity, and continued his story.
"I groped my way up the stairs into the room and found the bundle untouched in the corner." He handed it to the Princess; Wogan sprang again onto the box, and Gaydon whipped up the horses.

They reached the first posting stage at two, the second at four, the third at six, and at each they wasted no time.