"I can stand here."
"Come in, you may attract attention of someone passing."
"What harm if I do?"
"No, harm, but it may prove inconvenient, and may interfere with our efforts to learn the fate of the girl."
"One moment; do you know anything concerning this tragedy?"
"All I know is that I came to that door as you did, and my eyes fell upon the ghastly sight."
"Then you came here did you expect to find the old man alive?"
"I did."
"And the girl?"
"Yes."