I had no curiosity of that kind.
I wanted something _alive_." She paused.
"Go on." "Well, suddenly I knew that I must see the inside of that box, which had a padlock.

I wrenched this off, and in an envelope addressed to me in faded ink, I found the locket and the pearls.

It is queer how ideas pop into one's head.

Instantly I knew that I was going to run away that night before he returned from the neighbouring island.

At the bottom of the trunk I found two of my mother's dresses.