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I come out of the front door on purpose so you can go in that way. Your father's asleep in his chair. He told your mother not to unbolt this door to-night, and she didn't darse to. But we went past him real still to the front one, an' you can slip in there and get up to your chamber without his seeing you. Oh, Charlotte, do come!" Charlotte arose, and she and Sylvia went around to the front door.
She wondered what had become of Owen, but she did not dare unbolt the door for fear that Dale might be waiting on the other side of it. So, in the grip of a nameless terror she leaned against the door and waited. She heard Dale talking to his men; he was standing near the door behind which she stood, and she could hear him distinctly. "You guys hit the breeze after Sanderson.
I was listlessly gazing out of the window when I suddenly became aware of a lady waving her hand to me from a gig coming down the road which our summer house commanded. In an instant I recognised Mrs. Vincent. To run down the hillock, unbolt the private door, and welcome her to our house, was the work of a moment.
But, after such a letter as I have written, nothing but an interview can make him so. He beseeches me therefore, 'To unbolt the door, as that very night; or, if I receive not this time enough, this night; and he will, in a disguise that shall not give suspicion who he is, if he should be seen, come to the garden door, in hopes to open it with his key; nor will he have any other lodging than in the coppice both nights; watching every wakeful hour for the propitious unbolting, unless he has a letter with my orders to the contrary, or to make some other appointment.
A woman who is driven to visit her husband like a thief in the night and then sent away like a street dog left to get up, unbolt, unbar, and find her way out of the house as she best may is justified in doing anything.
What need of weapons the suffocating pillows would stop speech and life. What so easy as escape, to pass into the anteroom; to unbolt the door; to descend into the courtyard; to give the signal to the porter in his lodge, who, without seeing him, would pull the cordon, and give him egress unobserved? All this was so possible, so probable.
Ladies, I'm sorry Miss Bursal and Mr. Bursal are come just coming upstairs. Mrs. Talb. Then, will you be so good, sir, as to unlock this door? Waiter. It must be bolted on the inside. Chambermaid! Sally! Are you within there? Unbolt this door. Mr. Bursal's voice behind the scenes. Mr. Burs. Let me have a basin of good soup directly. Waiter.
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