For some time she strenuously refused to grant Mr.Winkle the interview Sam had so pathetically requested; but at length,when the conversation threatened to be interrupted by the unwelcomearrival of a third party, she hurriedly gave him to understand, withmany professions of gratitude, that it was barely possible she might bein the garden an hour later, next evening.
"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) "Do you think," asked Boyle, 'that the Count or the colonel, or any ofthese Eastern travellers have anything to do with it? Do you think itis--preternatural?"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) "I will grant you this," said the priest gravely, "if the Count, or thecolonel, or any of your neighbours did dress up in Arab masquerade andcreep up to this house in the dark--then it was preternatural.