Celie rather than upon Vauquier.
However, there the footsteps were.Mlle.Celie had sprung from the room as I described to Wethermill.

But I was puzzled.

Then in the room I found the torn-up sheet of notepaper with the words, 'Je ne sais pas,' in mademoiselle's handwriting.

The words might have been spirit-writing, they might have meant anything.

I put them away in my mind.