What would be their one thought?
Why, to get away--to come back perhaps later, when Mlle.

Celie should have told them what, by the way, she did not know, but in any case to get away now.

So they made their little mistake, and in their hurry they left the light burning in the room of Helene Vauquier, and the murder was discovered seven hours too soon for them." "Seven hours!" said Mr.Ricardo.
"Yes.

The household did not rise early.

It was not until seven that the charwoman came.