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"They might be brothers," rejoined Raffles, who knew all the loose fish about town. "Well, I'm not sure that I shall want you after all, Bunny." "Why not?" "If the front door's only on the latch, and you're right about the lock, I shall walk in as though I were the son of the house myself." And he jingled the skeleton bunch that he carried on a chain as honest men carry their latchkeys.
If the people inside the house will run the place as we want it run, they may stay inside and we will keep the latchkeys in our pockets. If they do not, we shall have to re-enter upon possession."
'But it's just as well' she rose and began to draw on her glove 'just as well that each of us should know where to find the other. So tell me, what if it should be a question of going forward in the suffrage direction or going back? 'You mean on from latchkeys and University degrees to Parliament, or back. 'Oh, back, he said hastily. 'Back. Yes, back to the harem.
"Now the house in Queen Square is virtually a museum. The upper part is separated from the lower by a massive door which opens from the hall and gives access to the staircase, and which is fitted with a Chubb night-latch. There are two latchkeys, of which John used to keep one and I the other. You will find them both in the safe behind me.
The relatives had astonishingly settled down, with the unmoved passage of time, and more modern emancipation had so far left latchkeys and bachelor apartments behind it that they began to seem almost old-fogeyish. Clara March, however, had progressed with her day.
Gareth-Lawless "got her wondrous clothes from Helene" but that he couldn't. His name was Harrowby. Another was the Starling who was a Miss March who had, some years earlier, led the van of the girls who prostrated their relatives by becoming what was then called "emancipated"; the sign thereof being the demanding of latchkeys and the setting up of bachelor apartments.
I sha'n't plague you to come to the pictures every night now, replied Eva, going off. But Eva had counted without her host, as Mrs. Morrison, having supposed that they would all go to church, had locked up and gone out, taking the key with her. As they were not on a main road, the door was not kept latched, and so they had no latchkeys.
They appear to be able to leak through keyholes, as nothing in the houses they go to is ever disturbed." "Anyhow, they have latchkeys," retorted Ruthven Smith, with what for him might be considered gaiety of manner. "The thief or thieves who relieved me of my pearls or rather, my employer's pearls apparently walked in as a member of the household might have done."
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