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I expect I was just being – hysterical."
　　"No," said Father, "I don't think you were. I think you meant justwhat you said."
　　"I might have been imagining things," said Elvira. Her eyes shifted again.
　　Bess Sedgwick moved. She said quietly:
　　"You'd better tellhim, Elvira."
　　Elvira shot a quick, uneasy look at her mother.
　　"You needn't worry,"said Father, reassuringly. "We know quitewell in the police force that girls don't tell their mothersor their guardians everything. We don't take those things tooseriously, but we've got to know about them, because, you see,it all helps."
　　Bess Sedgwick said:
　　"Was it in Italy?"
　　"Yes," said Elvira.
　　Father said: "That's where you've been at school, isn't it, or a finishing place or whatever they call it nowadays?"