Esther was sitting perfectly still, her face grave and calm, her eyes alone full of fear.

Lord Saxthorpe was not an observant man and he continued, quite unconscious of the sensation which his question had aroused.
"Sounds a silly thing to ask you, doesn't it?
They're all full of it at Wells, though.

I sat on the bench this morning and went into the police-station for a moment first.

Seems they've got a long dispatch from Scotland Yard about a missing man who is supposed to be in this part of the world.

He came down in a special train on Tuesday night--the night of the great flood--and his train was wrecked at Wymondham.