"Yes, but I did not find her on the landing when I got outside."
"Where was she, then?"
"I don't know."
"But did you not go and see?"
"She slipped away with astonishing celerity," said Bessie.
"I can take no steps in the matter. If she does it again, speak to her and remonstrate."
"But I never have a chance. She is gone in a moment."
"She cannot get away so quickly as all that."
"Somehow she does."
"And you are sure it is Jane?" again I asked; and again she replied: "If not Jane, who else can it be? There is no one else in the house."