"And so one of them has come," she said.

"I thought I heard a noise upstairs last night," she added.

"It must have been then." "An'," he jeered, "you was so busy about that time that you couldn't go to investigate.

That's how you guarded it--how you filled your trust." She gazed fixedly at him and his gaze dropped.

"You are determined to continue your insults," she said coldly.
He reddened.