Alice Manisty rapidly came back to her, stood between her bed and the wall, and Lucy felt instinctively that some hideous change had passed.
'Dalgetty thought that all was safe, so did Edward.

And indeed the locks were safe--the only doors that hold in all the villa--I tried _yours_ in the afternoon while Manisty and the priest were talking! But mine held.

So I had to deal with Dalgetty.' She stooped, and whispered:--'I got it in Venice one day--the chemist near the Rialto.

She might have found it--but she never did--she is very stupid.

I did her no harm--I think.