If servants and jewelry suddenly begin to disappear in a castle or rich estate and strange traces appear, if ominous objects appear out of nowhere and someone writes threats on the walls in blood, it is customary to call detectives and solicitors. Well-trained bloodhounds will search around everything and interrogate everyone, and, most likely, they will find the attacker. But a cautious and secret rumor creeps from house to house that the silly girl will do the same thing much faster and more reliably.