“Yesterday, while I was waiting for her to go out to buy her new dresses. O the ingratitude!”
“Have you made no search for her?”
“Yes, I’ve made every possible inquiry. I’ve paid ten dollars to a police-officer to look her up. O the ingratitude of the world! But she’ll be come up with!”
“Did you let her know that I was her master?”
“Yes, ’t was only yesterday I imparted the information.”
“How did she receive it?”
“She was a little startled at first, but soon seemed reconciled, even pleased with the idea of her new wardrobe.”
“Have you closely questioned your domestics?”
“Yes. They know nothing. She must have slipped unobserved out of the house.”
“Is there any one among them with whom she was more familiar than with another?”