“Eh?”
“What else did she take with her?”
“Pretty nearly everything she owned, I should say.”
“Do you mean that she took all of her trunks?”
“Yes; all of her own and some of mother’s as well.”
“How many in all?”
“Good gracious, Carter, you don’t suppose I have kept tabs on the number of trunks those two women own, do you? I only know what the maid told me about it.”
“Well, what did she tell you?”
“She said that it seemed strange that my sister had taken the new maid, who was not entirely accustomed to her ways, and left her behind, who knew all about her, particularly when she was intending to be gone for a long time—but that she thought it stranger still that her mistress had said nothing to her about her intention of going.”
“Ah! The maid who was left behind did not know that your sister intended to go that day, then?”