Quotation from: The Secret Agent

Written by: Joseph Conrad

The door was hardly shut when Mrs Verloc, jumping up from the chair, ran
to it as if to fling it open, but instead of doing so fell on her knees,
with her ear to the keyhole. The two men must have stopped directly they
were through, because she heard plainly the Chief Inspector's voice,
though she could not see his finger pressed against her husband's breast
emphatically.