"Then tell Ducie to keep her pins and curl papers in her own room."
"They are not Ducie's. She would not put such dreadful things in her pretty hair."
"How do they come here, then?"
"I suppose the people who have been occupying these rooms left them."
"No one has occupied these rooms since they were redecorated and refurnished."
"You are mistaken, Robert. They have been fully occupied for the last three weeks."
"Dora, what are you saying?"
"The truth! Call any of your servants, and they will tell you so."
Without further words he rang the bell, and Ducie appeared. "Ducie," he asked, "who told you there had been people staying in these rooms?"
"The kitchen, sir; that is, the men and women in the kitchen. I was taken all aback, for my lady had told me——"