While she was thus engaged her things--her shoes and stockings--appear to have been stolen.
In any case she was unable to find them when tired of the amusement she came up on to the beach.

Moreover she was caught in the rain.

And I deeply regret to tell you--but I merely repeat what I learned from Mary Fisher and Mrs.Cooper when I returned--it was not till after dark, when the maids had become so alarmed that they despatched Tolling and Alfred to search for her, that Damaris landed from a boat at the breakwater, having been brought down the river--by--by"-- Throughout the earlier portion of her recital Charles Verity stood in the same place and same attitude staring down at the tiger skin.

Twice or thrice only he raised his eyes, looking at the speaker with a flash of arrogant interrogation.
Upon one, even but moderately, versed in the secular arts of twig-liming, such flashes would have acted as an effective warning and deterrent.

Not so upon Theresa.