"Is this where you were sitting the night before last, when you heard the crash in your master's room upstairs ?" "Put the knave on the rubbish heap," she muttered without looking up.
"Listen to me, Mrs.Thalassa"-- he spoke still louder.

"Did you hear the shot before the crash ?" The loud tone seemed to reach the remote consciousness of her being, and she started up in another flurry.

...

"Coming, coming, sir.

Jasper, where's the tray ?..." she stood thus for a moment, then dropped back into her chair, her eyes fixed on the opposite wall.
"What's the matter with her ?" said Barrant, turning to her husband.
"She's been like it ever since it happened," said Thalassa, in a low tone.
"That's how I found her when I came from the cellar." "Did she hear the shot--or see anything ?" "That's more than I can tell you.