human
Stolen!
gpt
Unless one of you, or some servant you trust with the key, is a somnambulist, said Knight.
human
I don't see how it would pay a thief to steal such a thing. It must be too well known. He couldn't dispose of it--that is if he weren't a collector himself; and even then he could never show it. But--by Jove!
gpt
What is it? What have you seen?
human
It looks to me as if a square bit of glass had been cut out on the side where the lost miniature must have hung, he said.
gpt
I can't be sure, from where I stand, because the cabinet is too close to the wall of the recess.