They were standing in the middle of the room, half puzzled as to how they had got there, when Marcelline appeared.
"We have been with Dudu," they told her, before she had time to ask them anything.

"He has told us lovely stories--nicer even than fairy adventures." And Marcelline smiled and seemed pleased, but not at all surprised.
* * * * * "A strange thing has happened," said Jeanne's father the next day.

"I feel quite distressed about it.

Old Dudu the raven has disappeared.

He is nowhere to be found since yesterday afternoon, the gardener tells me.
They have looked for him everywhere in vain.