"Jane, what is the matter?
Where is Miss Violet?
Have you seen her ?" She caught the terrified girl by the shoulders, holding her fast while she questioned her.
Jane stopped perforce in her headlong flight.

"Oh, lor, Miss Olga, do let me go! Miss Violet's upstairs--with Mrs.Briggs.

She's in a dreadful taking, and don't seem to know what she's doing.

Did you hear her scream?
Mrs.Briggs says it's hysterics, but it don't sound like that to me.

It's made my blood run cold." Olga released as swiftly as she had captured her, and started for the stairs.