They will want to thank you for our escape if we get away, and for your kindness even if the worst comes to the worst.

I do hope that there is no possibility of a suspicion falling upon you about the missing dresses." "Oh, no," Miss Sinclair said, "I'm sure no one saw me go to their rooms, and it will be supposed that you were hidden somewhere there, and have taken them yourselves.

I shall make the things you have taken off into a bundle, slip into a room close to theirs, and throw them under a bed.

If it were known that you are English, it is possible that some suspicion might fall upon me.

As it is, there is no reason why I more than any one else should have been concerned in the matter.
Now, it is just nine o'clock.