"He is a new man.

I do not like his appearance." "Do you think he heard us or observed anything?
I can make short work of him if--" He paused significantly.

She smiled up into his face.
"He did not hear anything.

We've frightened him off, if he intended to play the eavesdropper." The servant had disappeared through a door at the end of the hall.
"Then there were the great sums of money that my husband sent off from time to time, and the strange boxes that came overland to the castle and later went away again as secretly as they came.

Mr.Tullis, I am confident in my mind that those boxes contained firearms and ammunition.
I have thought it all out.