It must be there still.

This red case is something else--we can try to account for it later.

It all came through the lights not working.

If it hadn't been dusk you would have seen that I gave you a dark green leather letter-case--quite different from this, though of about the same length--rather less thick, and--" Frantically she began ransacking the crevice between the seat and back of the sofa, but nothing was there.

We might have known there could be nothing or the Commissary of Police would have been before us.