"You've just got to go, Miss Connolly," she said. "You can't stay here."
"That's all very well," I said. "But don't you know that I am a stranger round these
XI
I was down in the kitchen before six o'clock. The girl had put some bread and butter on the table, a cup of tea and an egg. My heart was so full I could not eat but I managed to drink the tea. I then turned to the place where I had stacked my bundles of bandages the night before. They were gone, even the knapsack that held my few days' rations.
"Where are all my things gone to?" I asked.
"The soldiers took them away last night."
"When?" I asked. "How did they come to see them?"
"After they came down from your room the first time," she replied. "They asked me who owned those bundles. I said the girl upstairs. Then they examined them, called in the soldiers and told them to take those bundles."