it wiser to await developments. We knew the servants' staircase
was distant, though not exactly where.

About 4.30 we heard voices, apparently in the maid's room,
undoubtedly on the same floor. We had for some time heard the
housemaids overhead coughing, occasionally speaking, and we
thought they had got up and had come down to her room.

After five o'clock the noises seemed to have ceased, and Miss
Moore fell asleep. About 5.30 I heard them again, apparently
more distant. I continued awake, but heard no more.

About 8 A.M. the maid brought us some tea. She said she had
slept very badly, had worried over our apparent restlessness, as
she had heard voices and footsteps and the sound of things
dragged about, but that the maids had not been downstairs. We
had never risen, and had spoken seldom, and in low tones, and an
empty room (the dressing-room) intervened between Mac.'s room
and ours.

In order, as we supposed, to follow up the noises we, later, in
the day moved our rooms to the other side of the house,
especially choosing those from which the sounds seemed to
proceed--Nos. 6 and 7--leaving Mac., the maid, in No. 3.

The whole day has been occupied with exploring the house,
sending for food and supplies, trying to thaw the rooms, moving
furniture to make things homelike, and trying to arrive at a
little comfort.