After a moment's thought she returned again to her room, took off her dress and threw a shawl round her shoulders, and then stole quietly down the stairs to the next floor and knocked gently at Miss Penfold's door.

She repeated the knock two or three times, and then heard Miss Penfold's voice asking who was there.

She did not speak, but knocked again.

This time the voice came from the other side of the door.
"It is me, Miss Penfold--Anna Sibthorpe." The door was unlocked and opened.
"What is it, Anna ?" "There is some one in the house, ma'am; I can hear them moving about down below, and I think I can hear men's voices." Miss Penfold came out and listened.
"Yes, there is some one there," she said.

"Go and call the butler and the others.