Away ran the girls, too eager to get in to have time for speech. They ran through the vestibule into the breakfast-room; from thence to the library; their father was in neither; and they were on the point of seeking him up stairs with their mother, when they were met by the butler, who said:
Les jeunes filles couraient déja vers la maison ; elles traverserent le hall et se précipiterent dans la salle a manger, et de la, dans la bibliotheque : leur pere ne se trouvait nulle part. Elles allaient monter chez leur mere quand elles rencontrerent le valet de chambre.