I think fortune favored me to-day.

'Here is the parasol,' said I, but before the words were out of my mouth I saw that the girl had taken the alarm or that some grievous mistake had been made.

'That is not the one my mistress lost,' said she.
'She never carries anything but black.' And the door was about to close between us when I heard a voice from within call out peremptorily: 'Let me see that parasol.

Hold it up, young man.

There! at the foot of the stairs.