"Nothing stirred in the drawing room or in the dining room or on the stair case."
"We will all go-- courtesy requires that we all go."
"So perhaps escape is possible."
"I knew the glass had gone and the bird had gone."
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"I knew the glass had gone and the bird had gone," scolded the mistress in a black, austere dress. She walked to and fro in the room, even her footsteps sounded reproachful. The servants shrugged, looking more innocent than ever.
"I am not going without William!" cried the kid from the far end of the house, still refused to believe that her pet canary was gone. "Enough Sabrina!" the mistress turned around, making her way to the source of the noises. "We will all go-- courtesy requires that we all go."
"But William is gone! I am not going without William!" Sabrina burst into an intolerably incessant session of screaming. She was lying on the ground in her white dress, her one hand holding the empty cage, another knocking on the ground; her both feet waving tremendously, revealing her petticoat. She was waiting for her mother to give in because she always got what she wanted. She would have made a sweet girl if she weren't screaming with her hair all messed up with tears and mucus.
William was hiding behind an especially leafy branch. "Oh, the brat crying again. What a bore." He was glad that he got out of this, this depressing mansion, with the spoiling psycho mother, scheming servants and the spoiled brat. Yesterday the brat insisted on feeding him herself with peppermint chocolate. It was not exactly his first choice of food, but he, being the lowest in the power hierarchy of the house, had of course no say in what he was being fed. The brat lost interest of feeding him after a while and ran elsewhere with the cage still open. People were unguarded. He saw the only maid in the room sneakily slipped an exquisite glass underneath her apron. "So perhaps escape is possible." thought he. It was now or never. He flew out of the cage, out of the window. He was free.
His prison break was a success. Nothing stirred in the drawing room or in the dining room or on the stair case.
