Tippins, with a bewitching little scream, opines that we shall every one of us be murdered in our beds. Eugene eyes her as if some of us would be enough for him. Mrs. Veneering, W.M.P. , remarks that these social mysteries make one afraid of leaving Baby. Veneering, M.P. , wishes to be informed (with something of a secondhand air of seeing the Right Honourable Gentleman at the head of the Home Department in his place) whether it is intended to be conveyed that the vanished person has been spirited away or otherwise harmed? Instead of Lightwood’s answering, Eugene answers, and answers hastily and vexedly: “No, no, no; he doesn’t mean that; he means voluntarily vanished⁠—but utterly⁠—completely.”