“Yes. It seems that she called here twice before she caught me at home. At first she was very angry about a squabble there had been between Thompson and herself. I refused to listen to it. Then she told me how you had found her at some theatre, and she volunteered an explanation of her extraordinary behavior. She said that she had unexpectedly come into a large sum of money, and that it had turned her head. She was sorry for the trouble her actions had caused, so, under the circumstances, I allowed her to take away certain clothes and other belongings she had left here.”
“Did she ask for these things?”
“Yes. Made quite a point of it.”
“Did you see them?”
“No.”
“So you do not know whether they were of any value, or the usual collection of rubbish found in servants’ boxes.”
“I have not the slightest notion.”
“Have they ever been thoroughly examined by any one?”
“’Pon my honor, I believe not. Now that you remind me of it I think the girl seemed rather anxious on that point. I remember my housekeeper telling me that Harding had asked her if her clothes had been ransacked by the detectives.”
“And what did the housekeeper say?”