“I was hoping you would not notice that until after I had robbed you!”
The Marquis looked at her in astonishment.
“Good God!” he exclaimed. “So you were the highwayman!”
Ivana nodded.
“It was the only way I thought I could prevent you from realising that the snuffboxes were not there.”
“Then they were all that are left?” the Marquis enquired. “I thought perhaps some of them might have been put in the safe.”
“I anticipated you might think that too,” Ivana replied. “That is why I made one of the men come through the pantry door.”
“You certainly seem to think of everything. I could hardly believe that you could play the part of a man so well, although I did half suspect it after I heard you say you were a mimic.”
“That was another mistake to call the parakeets,” Ivana said with a sigh
