'No! not to-night, thank you'. And Margaret gravely lighted her out of the room, and bolted the door. From henceforth Dixon obeyed and admired Margaret.
Aware that Hermione was watching him suspiciously, Harry hurried up the stairs to the hall and then to the first landing, where he dashed into the bathroom and bolted the door again.
" You are too amiable, madame. What I want to ask is this: the door leading into Mrs. Inglethorp's room from that of Mademoiselle Cynthia, it was bolted, you say" ?
I sleep alone in my rambling farmhouse with never the latching of a door, and I am away for weeks at a time, with the place as free of access as a public picnic ground.
Saul was told that David had gone to Keilah, and he said, " God has delivered him into my hands, for David has imprisoned himself by entering a town with gates and bars" .
The doors were bolted — our own eyes have told us that — yet the presence of the candle grease on the floor, and the destruction of the will, prove that during the night someone entered the room.