"I thought of you in the middle of it all; but I was sure that Monsieur Sandwith would see what was being done and would get you away." "And you, Louise," said Harry, who had now come up, "how did you get away?
I have been terribly anxious, thinking that they might seize you too, and that would have been dreadful." "So they would have done," the old woman said; "but when that evil man looked away for a moment, mademoiselle whispered, 'Fly, Louise, for the children's sake!' and I slipped away into the crowd without even stopping to think, and ran into a shop; and it was well I did, for he shouted to them to seize me too, but I was gone, and as I don't think he noticed me before, they could not find me; and as soon as they had all moved away I came out.

I looked for you for some time, and then made up my mind that Monsieur Sandwith had come on home with you." "So I did, you see," Harry said; "but I did not dare to go in until we knew whether you had been taken too.

If you had not come after a time we should have looked for another lodging, though I knew well enough that you would not tell them where you lived." "No, indeed," the old woman said.

"They might have cut me in pieces without getting a single word from me as to where I lived.

Still they might have found out somehow, for they would have been sure to have published the fact that I had been taken, with a description of me.