There were doors all round the hall , but they were all locked ; and when Alice had been all the way down one side and up the other , trying try every door , she walked walk sadly down the middle , wondering wonder how she was ever to get out again .

Katharine stirred stir her tea , and seemed to speculate , so Denham thought think , upon the duty of filling somebody else ’s cup , but she was really wondering wonder how she was going to keep this strange young man in harmony with the rest .

She was wondering wonder whether the English mail expected to-day would bring her troublesome editorial instructions .

But altogether all that did not amount to much either in the way of gain or prospects ; so that when Winnie announced her engagement to Mr Verloc her mother could not help wondering wonder , with a sigh sigh and a glance glance towards the scullery , what would become of poor Stephen now .