"I wouldn't mind."
"Try it, then."
Conrad was a man who inclined to be venturesome. He got out of the window, and tried to lower himself by the rope. The slender cord broke, and he fell and lay an inglorious heap on the greensward below.
"I told you so!" said Ralph, with a loud laugh.
"The man strained it," said Conrad, looking rather foolish.
"Here, Sarah," called out Ralph, "come and look here."
Outwardly calm, but with inward trepidation, Ralph's wife ascended the stairs.
"What's the matter?" she asked.
"What's the matter? You can see for yourself. The men have escaped."