We waited breakfast until ten, anxiously looking for her; but she never came.

None of the servants had seen her, but that she had gone out very early was evident; for the house-door was unlocked and unbolted, when the kitchen-girl came down at six in the morning.

We waited all the forenoon, but she never came.

Our anxiety trebly increased when we made the discovery that she had taken her trunk with her.

How she had got it out of the house was the profoundest mystery.