Even if you are missed, it will be some time before any search is made, and it would be thought much more likely that you had gone down into the town, than that you were hiding in the Palace, so there would be no chance of their looking for you here before we return.

Anyhow, we shall be able to have another talk before Tippoo comes back.

We shall be here every morning until nine, and if you are able to get away again, come and see us.
"It will be better, perhaps, for you not to wait any longer, now.

I suppose you have been charged with some message or other, and it would not do for you to be too long gone." The girl stood up at once.
"I have to go down to the Pettah, to get some sewing silk to match this;" and she drew out a small fragment of yellow silk.
"Very well, then.

You had better go and do it, or they may think that you are too long away.
"Goodbye, Annie.