"I think it would if the girl is wise.

Even now such things do happen, but I fancy it is time I went back again." She moved away, but Winston stayed where he was until the lad came in with a cigar in his hand.
"Hallo, Courthorne!" he said.

"Did you notice anybody pass the window a little while ago ?" "You are the first to come in through it," said Winston dryly.

"The kind of things you wear admit of climbing." The lad glanced at him with a trace of embarrassment.
"I don't quite understand you, but I meant a man," he said.

"He was walking curiously, as if he was half-asleep, but he slipped round the corner of the building and I lost him." Winston laughed.