"When did you see her after that?"
"I never saw her after that," and she began to cry softly.
"Come, come, don't cry. Your mistress is all right. I will bring her back. Now tell me why you did not see her again. Is it not your business to attend her in the morning?"
"Yes, sir, but she only gets up about eight o'clock, and the doctor told me he would call the first thing in the morning, and that I must not disturb her till he came. He said he wanted to wake her himself and see how she acted."
"You were not in the breakfast-room at eight o'clock," said the detective, watching her closely; "where were you?"
The girl turned crimson, and stammered a few words inaudibly.
"Come, tell me where you were. You were somewhere, you know. Where were you?"
"I was in the downstairs hallway," she said, slowly.
"Doing what?"
"I was talking to the policeman," she replied, more reluctantly.