Not as nice a woman, personally, as the cook, and sadly frightened of course.

Her mistress had posted her, to give the alarm in the case of an outbreak on the part of Mrs.
Zebedee, kept locked up in the room.

My arrival relieved the housemaid of further responsibility.

She ran downstairs to her fellow-servant in the kitchen.
I asked Mrs.Crosscapel how and when the alarm of the murder had been given.
"Soon after three this morning," says she, "I was woke by the screams of Mrs.Zebedee.I found her out here on the landing, and Mr.Deluc, in great alarm, trying to quiet her.

Sleeping in the next room he had only to open his door, when her screams woke him.