"That is terrible.
But you said the men were engaged in packing up the candlesticks and ornaments." "Oh, I believe that was a mere blind.

Of course they would wish us to believe they were simply burglars, and therefore they acted as such to begin with.

But there has never been any attempt on the house during the forty years we have lived here.

Why should there be so now?
If Anna had not fortunately heard those men I believe that when they had packed up a few things to give the idea that they were burglars, they would have gone to the library and set to to ransack it and find the will." "But they would never have found it, Charlotte.

It is too well hidden for that." "There is no knowing," Miss Penfold said gloomily.