"Friends of yours, I take it. Anyway, they were here when I arrived, and they seemed to feel very much at home."
"You're joking!"
"I am not joking, darling. Neither were they. In fact, they were proposing to do some very serious and unpleasant things to me. It's rather lucky I was able to discourage them. But I must say I take a poor view of your choice of playmates."
She fought his cynical remoteness with wild and desperate black eyes.
"I've never seen them before in my life. I swear I haven't You must believe me!"
"Then how did they get in here?"
"I don't know."
"I suppose they just broke in," Simon suggested, ignoring the fact that that was exactly what he had done himself.
"They might have."
"Or did they have a key?"