Might a' been a pair of scissors, they was that close together." "Miss Jane warn't on the beach yesterday afternoon," said Martha in a positive tone, still in the dark.
"She warn't, warn't she?
Well, I guess I know Miss Jane Cobden.

She and Bart was hunched up that close you couldn't get a bodkin 'tween 'em.
She had that red cloak around her and the hood up ever her head.

Not know her, and she within ten feet o' me?
Well, I guess I got my eyes left, ain't I ?" Martha stood stunned.

She knew now who it was.

She had taken the red cloak from Lucy's shoulders the evening before.