Of course, this conduct made the force only more distrustful of him than ever, and they would come and rout him out and ask him what he was doing there; and when he answered, "Nothing," he had merely come out for a stroll (it was then four o'clock in the morning), they looked as though they did not believe him, and two plain-clothes constables came home with him to see if he really did live where he had said he did.
Il leur répondit « Rien », qu’il était simplement sorti faire un tour (il était alors quatre heures du matin), et ils le regarderent d’un air incrédule. Deux agents en civil pousserent meme la méfiance jusqu’a le raccompagner chez lui, histoire de vérifier s’il habitait bien la ou il le prétendait.