Possibly the question was put maliciously. It provoked Miss Brodie to wrath.
"Mr. Graham too? Ella, what can you mean? If it hadn't been for Mr. Graham we should have known nothing whatever about it. I suppose that, in strict equity, the whole of it would be his. Whatever can you mean by saying 'Mr. Graham too?' in such a tone as that!"
"My dear, I meant no harm. Really you're a trifle warm--don't you think you are?"
"Warm! It's enough to make any one a trifle warm to hear you talk like that."
Ella made a little face behind Miss Brodie's back.
"Well, fortune or no fortune, I do hope that no more burglars will come and look for it again to-night."
"If they do," declared Madge, with a viciousness which presaged violence, "they'll not find us unprepared. I shall sleep with Jack's revolver at my bedside, and if you like you can have half my bed again."
Ella's manner was much more mild.
"Thank you, my dear; since you're so good--I think I will."