“I fear I disturbed her,” said Mr. Buxton. “She heard me as I went round the house.”
“Why did you go round the house?” asked Anthony.
“I often do,” he said shortly.
“And there was no one?” asked Mary.
“There was no one.”
“And what would you have done if there had been?”
“Yes,” said Anthony, “what would you have done to warn us all?”
Mr. Buxton considered.
“I should have rung the alarm, I think,” he said.
“But I did not know you had one,” said Mary.