Her husband was in the passage behind her.

He looked old enough to be her father; and he so trembled with terror that some people might have taken him for the guilty person.

I removed the key from the street door, after locking it; and I said to the landlady: "Nobody must leave the house, or enter the house, till the Inspector comes.

I must examine the premises to see if any on e has broken in." "There is the key of the area gate," she said, in answer to me.

"It's always kept locked.