human
Oh! she stammered, as though she awoke from sleep.
gpt
How my head aches! It is all gone!
human
I'm so sorry! Constance apologized.
gpt
It began to seem so real, I thought I was in that room with you. You are unaccountable! You couldn't know what happened. Yet you have been seeing the thief who stole our silver last night, and the Nelson Smiths' jewellery, but no jewellery of ours. That is the strange part of the affair, for I have a few things I adore--and they would have been easy to find. You didn't even know we _had_ been robbed, did you?
human
No, of course not, said the Countess.
gpt
I am sorry! Was it in the papers?
human
It will be this evening and to-morrow morning! But the police must hear about this vision of yours, the vision of the man with the latchkey. It may help them.
gpt
You must not tell the police! Madalena said,
human
I have warned you all, that if you talked too much about me and my crystal, the police might hear and take notice. There are such stupid laws in England. I may be doing something against them. If you or Lord Annesley-Seton speak of me to the police I will go away, and you will never hear more of my visions--as you call them--in future. Unless you promise that you will let the police find the thieves in their own way, without dragging me in, I shall be so unnerved that my eyes will be darkened.
gpt
Oh, I promise, if you feel so strongly about it, said Constance.
human
I didn't realize that it might do you harm to be mentioned to the police.