Mrs. Greene's eyes, when she had done being hysterical, were terrible,
and Sophonisba looked at me as though I were a convicted thief.

"Who put the box here?" I said, turning fiercely upon the Boots.

"I did," said the Boots, "by Monsieur's express order."

"By my order?" I exclaimed.

"Certainly," said the Boots.

"Corpo di Baccho!" said the landlord, and he also looked at me as
though I were a thief. In the mean time the landlady and the three
daughters had clustered round Mrs. Greene, administering to her all
manner of Italian consolation. The box, and the money, and the jewels
were after all a reality; and much incivility can be forgiven to a
lady who has really lost her jewels, and has really found them again.

There and then there arose a hurly-burly among us as to the manner in
which the odious trunk found its way into my room. Had anybody been
just enough to consider the matter coolly, it must have been quite
clear that I could not have ordered it there. When I entered the
hotel, the boxes were already being lugged about, and I had spoken a
word to no one concerning them. That traitorous Boots had done it,--
no doubt without malice prepense; but he had done it; and now that the
Greenes were once more known as moneyed people, he turned upon me, and
told me to my face, that I had desired that box to be taken to my own
room as part of my own luggage!