“In her bed,—last night after midnight. She had been down stairs,——”
“After midnight?”
“Yes. She heard somebody down stairs, and—Martha was a brave one! She thought it was robbers in the house and she went down to see.”
“Well?”
“Well, it was Mrs Varian, who had gone down to the library. So Martha came up again,——”
“Leaving Mrs Varian down there?”
“Yes,” Minna interrupted, “leaving me down there.”
“What were you doing, Mrs Varian?”
“I was wakeful, and I went down to the library to look over some papers.”
“And this girl came to you there? Tell the story in your own way.”