"The children would like to go out; they say they feel cramped from the
journey," she said. "If madame allows, I will take them into the park;
it is just opposite the hotel," she added.
"Certainly, Elise."
A moment later Tioka and Grania, ready to go out, came running to
embrace me, and behind them Elise reappeared.
"If madame permits," she said in a low voice, "I might perhaps leave
'_it_' here?"
"It" was the black leather satchel--our white elephant.
"Yes, yes; leave it," I said.
And she carried it into my bedroom and placed it on the dressing-table.