"I suppose you have been through them."
"No, indeed, sir. When my lady went to her dinner, I called in one of the kitchen girls. I wanted a witness that I had never touched them."
"How dare you make such charges, then?"
"Ask my lady."
"Dora, is there any truth in this girl's words?"
"I fear she speaks too truly, Robert. I have only looked cursorily through one trunk, but I found much fine clothing spoiled, and I fear some jewelry gone. The ruby and sapphire ring given me by my college history class as a wedding gift is not in the jewel case it was packed in, and my turquoise necklace was scattered among my neckwear. It ought to have been in the jewel box."
"Perhaps you forgot in the hurry of packing where you put it."
"I was not hurried. Those four trunks were all leisurely and carefully packed, and the day we left Kendal for Paris——"
"You mean our wedding-day?"
"Yes."