All through my illness I trembled at the thought that they might ransack my things and find them, and when I came to myself I was worrying myself with the idea that I might perhaps have spoken about these papers in my delirium.

Oh! it would have been frightful if my relations had seized them.

Take them, quickly, before Clementina returns.

I must conceal everything, even from her." Margari accomplished the task with tolerable dexterity.

He only broke the looking-glass while he was opening the casket, and that was little enough for him.