"Has anything happened to her?"
"We cannot find her."
"She has not returned to the hotel?"
"Oh, there can be no occasion for alarm. I told you she got out of the theater all right."
"But she may have returned."
"What should she return for? But she did not; that I am sure of."
"Where is she, then?"
"Oh, don't worry, my boy; she will turn up all right. Perhaps she has gone to visit friends."
"Would she be likely to visit friends under such circumstances?" said the boy, almost angrily. "She has no acquaintances in this place—she told me so only this afternoon; and if she had, this is not the time she would choose for making a social call."