She decided it was late enough to slip downstairs to see if Fontworth had turned up anything.

On steamy afternoons, visitors to the Met's rooftop garden may want to slip downstairs to cool off.

When she came with the tray he would slip downstairs and steal what he could from the open shelves in the pantry.

But Phyllis, suspecting something, slipped downstairs late that night.

Then it dawned upon her that her rather wanted her to slip quietly downstairs and arrange to have the stranger followed.

Lights out and door ajar, she listened intently for her opportunity to slip downstairs.

ON a morning when you decide to sleep late, little Rachel slips downstairs to play a computer game.

Prudence slipped out of the street door downstairs, looked hopelessly up and down the street.

And then, since it was still barely seven o'clock, she slipped on a cardigan and went quietly downstairs and out into the garden.

As they slipped away downstairs, somewhere up above them the blond American began to applaud again.