"It's too late for regrets now," Maud answers her impatiently. "I want that note, Nellie. It is in the pocket of the blue dress I wore yesterday. Get it for me."
Barely a minute—and a cry of dismay from Nellie's lips.
"Oh, Miss Maud, 'tisn't there."
Maud's face grows suddenly white and scared.
"Look again," she says, with a gasp.
"'Tisn't there," the maid reiterates, after a second flurried search.
"Then it's somewhere else," confidently. "I know it is in this room. Look until you find it, Nellie."
Then she turns to Reine.
"Can you guess why I came back last night?"