CHAPTER 3.XI.
She never had.

The whole difficulty was to prove anything.

How did one prove things, how could one?
Suppose Kate had stood in front of her and deliberately made a face.

Mightn't she very well have been in pain?
Wasn't it impossible, at any rate, to ask Kate if she was making a face at her?
If Kate answered "No"-- and, of course, she would say "No"-- what a position! How undignified! Then again Constantia suspected, she was almost certain that Kate went to her chest of drawers when she and Josephine were out, not to take things but to spy.

Many times she had come back to find her amethyst cross in the most unlikely places, under her lace ties or on top of her evening Bertha.