“...On the eleventh day the village woke up in great excitement. Mary, this diamond, an example of perfection, has disappeared! Her bed remained unrumpled and her front door was left ajar. The fugitive slowly slipped out at night. Not only Mary disappeared! Miss Lavinia's two brooches and five rings disappeared with her, as well as three rings, a pendant, a bracelet and four brooches that belonged to Miss Emily! That was only the prologue to the disaster. ..."