"What would you have done?"
"I'd--I'd have done something if--if I'd had to break a window!"
"But what good would your breaking a window have done me?"
"Anyhow, it would have been a beginning; but, you see, I didn't even know which your room was--whether you were at the front or the back."
"I'm on the second floor in the front; my window's over the hall door."
"I kept staring at it all the time; I had a sort of feeling--I swear I had a sort of feeling! If I'd only been sure I'd have whistled."
"Whistled! At one in the morning! What would have been the good of that?"
"Suppose, say, I'd whistled 'The Devout Lover'--or what I should have meant for 'The Devout Lover'--you'd have heard."
"I probably should have heard; Miss Claughton would probably have heard also."
"Oh, hang Miss Claughton!"