“You’d better!” said Jane.
“I can’t get this dashed helmet off!”
“If you don’t come quick, I’ll blow it off.”
Sam stepped out into the hall, a picturesque figure which combined the costumes of two widely separated centuries. Modern as far as the neck, he slipped back at that point to the Middle Ages.
“Hands up!” commanded Jane Hubbard.
“My hands are up!” retorted Sam querulously, as he wrenched at his unbecoming head-wear.
“Never mind trying to raise your hat,” said Jane. “If you’ve lost the combination, we’ll dispense with the formalities. What we’re anxious to hear is what you’re doing in the house at this time of night, and who your pals are. Come along, my lad, make a clean breast of it and perhaps you’ll get off easier. Are you a gang?”
“Do I look like a gang?”
“If you ask me what you look like....”
“My name is Marlowe ... Samuel Marlowe....”