In fact he is just gone." "Anything wrong ?" inquired the tormentor.
"No, nothing wrong that I know of," said Claudius.

Then he suddenly turned sharply on Barker, and looked straight at him.

"Did you expect to hear that there was anything wrong ?" he asked quickly.

Claudius had a very unpleasant way of turning upon his antagonist just a minute before the enemy was ready for him.

Barker had found this out before, and, being now directly interrogated, he winced perceptibly.
"Oh dear, no," he hastened to say.