"You'll find it if you look." "But I tell you I've looked everywhere.

It's gone, that's all I know." "Well, but--what do you mean?
How can it have gone ?" "I don't know.

I only know I was showing it her on Sunday." "And what connection is there between the two things ?" asked Julian, almost sternly.

"You don't wish me to understand that Ida Starr knows anything about the spoon ?" "How can I tell?
It's gone." "Come," exclaimed Julian, with a laugh, "this is too absurd, Harriet! You must have taken leave of your senses.

If it's gone, then some one in the house has taken it." "And why not Ida Starr ?" Julian stared at her with mingled anger and alarm.
"Why not?
Simply because she is incapable of such a thing." "Perhaps _you_ think so, no doubt.