moat

“You mean that someone waded across the moat?”

“It’s all very well your saying that a man escaped by wading this moat, but what I ask you is, how did he ever get into the house at all if the bridge was up?”

Then he could hope when the deed was done to slip quickly from the window, to wade the moat, and to get away at his leisure.

But is it understandable that he should go out of his way to bring with him the most noisy weapon he could select, knowing well that it will fetch every human being in the house to the spot as quick as they can run, and that it is all odds that he will be seen before he can get across the moat?