"Let us get her off to her engagement.

Then we can talk.

I suppose," he continued, turning to the manager, "she first announced her loss to you ?" "She announced her loss to the whole world, in a way of speaking," answered the manager, with a dry laugh.
"She screamed it out over the main staircase into the hall! Everybody in the place knows it by this time--she took good care they should.

I don't know how she can have been robbed--so far as I can learn she's scarcely been out of these rooms since she came into them yesterday afternoon.

The grand piano had been put in for her before she arrived, and she's spent all her time singing and playing--I don't believe she's ever left the hotel.