human
Secret drawers? What an idea!
gpt
You never knew of any did you?
human
No.... Stop, let me think. Upon my word, I think there was something of the sort, but it has been so long ago I have almost forgotten.
gpt
Try to remember, do!
human
It was not a secret drawer, but there were little hidden cubby-holes--three or four of them. I remember, now, your father once showed me how they opened. They were little places where the Roman Catholics used to hide the pages of their mass-books and such like in the days of persecution in England.
gpt
Yes, yes, said Dan,
human
No, I think not; but, dear me, it was over thirty years ago we brought that old cabinet from England,--long before you were born, Dan.
gpt
Can you remember how to open the secret places? I have been looking it over, but I can't see where they can be, much less how to get into them.
human
There were four of them, I think; all in the carving on the front, in the eyes of the lions it seems to me, and in the lion's mouth, or in the leaves somewhere. One spring that opened them I recollect, was under the ledge of the shelf, another at the back of the cabinet and,--but no, I really can't remember where the others were.
gpt
More success next time, _monsieur le marquis_!