No one has come in through the door except you and your uncle the canon.

Who else, then, could have taken the fruit?
You will not say"-- and here she laughed again--"that it is your uncle the canon who has stolen his own fruit ?" "Ah, but I wish it had been I," said Uncle Lucien, smiling sadly; for it sorely disturbed his good-nature to have such a scene, and to be a witness of what he believed to be Napoleon's obstinacy and untruthfulness.

"I would surely say so, even if I had to go without my supper for the disobedient act." "But," suggested Napoleon, in a broken voice, touched with the shame of appearing to be a tell-tale, "it is possible for some one to come in here through the window." "Bah!" cried Saveria.

"Do not be a silly too.

No one has come through the window.