The fact is, they ought never to have been there.

That's why I believe in big things myself.' He paused, having apparently reached the end of his subject.
'Were you with the poor girl when she died ?' asked the lady presently.
'No.

She'd dined with a party and was in their box, and they were the last people who saw her.

You read about the explosion.

She bolted from the box in the dark, I was told, and as she couldn't be found afterwards they concluded she had rushed out and taken a cab home.