human
I want you to open your cabinet drawer, aunt; but before you do it, I'll tell you that you will find some one has been to it----
gpt
Nessa?
human
I'll tell you in a moment. You are quite right that there is some one in the house who is playing the spy, and, of course, you'll understand that if I am to join the Secret Service, it is a sheer impossibility for me to remain here with any one like that about the house.
gpt
They shall leave it at once, Johann.
human
We'll discuss that directly. You will find that the letters you so neatly put away here are just flung in anyhow in order to suggest that whoever did it was surprised and had to act in a hurry.
gpt
Nessa shall leave the house to-morrow, Johann,
human
But it wasn't Miss Caldicott at all, aunt; it was Gretchen; and I described what I had witnessed and went on to advise her not to take any open notice of the matter at all.
gpt
You know now who it is and can be on your guard, keeping such papers as are of no account here and putting others in a safer place.
human
But to have such a person in the house, Johann!
gpt
She can't do any harm now; and you must remember this. You don't know who has put her here nor the reason. It might do much more harm than good if you were to make any disturbance about it. These are curious times, and the fact that you have an English girl in the house may be the reason. By sending Gretchen about her business you may only have some one else put here, or one of the other servants bribed or forced to take her place;