'The young ladies must have heaps of brooches and lockets, and things they don't want, so just you fetch me one,' sez she; 'and if you don't I'll catch you and half kill you.' Oh, I can tell you I was scared to death! I don't want not to be honest; but she'd half killed me once or twice before, when I was a kid, and I know what her hand's like when she uses it." "So you took something ?" "Yes.

I waited till the young ladies was all at supper; then I got down one of their coats from the pegs in the corridor and slipped it over my black dress and apron, and I put on one of their hats.

I thought if I was seen upstairs they'd take me for one of themselves.

I went into the studio, and there, right opposite on a little table, was that kind of locket thing.

I slipped it in my pocket, and looked round the room.