I cannot understand even now why I did not hear the car go.

My room is just over the entrance to the courtyard." "It is a proof," Major Forrest remarked, "that you sleep as soundly as you deserve." "I am not so sure about that," Jeanne said.

"Last night, for instance, it seemed to me that I heard all manner of strange sounds." Cecil de la Borne looked up quickly.
"Sounds ?" he repeated.

"Do you mean noises in the house ?" She nodded.
"Yes, and voices! Once I thought that you must be all quarrelling, and then I thought that I heard some one fall down.

After that there was nothing but the opening and shutting of doors." "And after that," the Princess remarked smiling, "you probably went to sleep." "Exactly," Jeanne admitted.