Though how the gipsies could have got in without waking that nurse is a mystery to me and ever will be.

She must sleep like a pig.' 'Or the seven sleepers,' said the coachman.
'But what would gipsies want her _for_ ?' Philip asked.
'What do they ever want anybody for ?' retorted the cook.

'Look at the heirs that's been stolen.

I don't suppose there's a titled family in England but what's had its heir stolen, one time and another.' 'I suppose you've looked all over the house,' said Philip.
'I suppose we ain't deaf and dumb and blind and silly,' said the cook.
'Here's that nurse.

You be off, Mr.Philip, without you want a flea in your ear.' And Philip, at the word, _was_ off.