She hesitated.
"Well, mother ?" "Carlia is gone." "Gone?
Gone where ?" "Nobody knows.

She's been missing for a week.

She left home last Saturday to spend a few days with a friend in the city, so she said.
Yesterday her father called at the place to bring her home and learned that she had never been there." "My gracious, mother!" "Yes; it's terrible.

Her father has inquired for her and looked for her everywhere he could think of, but not a trace of her can he find.

She's gone." Mother and son sat in silence for some time.