"Taking advantage of your being out I went up to dust the drawing-room, and while I was trying to get behind the chiffonnier it tilted.

I'm afraid, sir, that a bottle of ink that was inside may have got broken, for just a few drops oozed out, sir.

But I hope there's no harm done.

I wiped it up as well as I could, seeing that the doors of the chiffonnier are locked." Mr.Sleuth stared at her with a wild, almost a terrified glance.
But Mrs.Bunting stood her ground.

She felt far less afraid now than she had felt before he came in.