"O yes, sir."

"And to each other?"

"Well, yes, I suppose so; it's not for me to say."

"You suppose so. Have you any reason to think otherwise?" And he
doubled the watch-chain about his fingers as if he would double its
attention as well as his own.

Thomas hesitated a moment. But just as his interlocutor was about to
repeat his question, he drew himself up into a rather stiff and formal
attitude and replied:

"Well, sir, no."

The juryman, for all his self-assertion, seemed to respect the
reticence of a servant who declined to give his opinion in regard to
such a matter, and drawing complacently back, signified with a wave of
his hand that he had no more to say.

Immediately the excitable little man, before mentioned, slipped
forward to the edge of his chair and asked, this time without
hesitation: "At what time did you unfasten the house this morning?"

"About six, sir."

"Now, could any one leave the house after that time without your
knowledge?"