This involved taking her French dictionary, as she doubted if her
grandfather had one. She ought to put in a "Botany," if they were
to study trees; but she could not tell which, so she would take all
there were. She might as well take all her dresses, and it was no
harm if one had too many wraps. When she had her trunk packed,
she found it over-full; it was difficult to shut it. She had heard
Solomon John set out from the front door with his father and the
little boys, and Agamemnon was busy holding the horse at the
side door, so there was no use in calling for help. She got upon the
trunk; she jumped upon it; she sat down upon it, and, leaning over,
found she could lock it! Yes, it was really locked.
But, on getting down from the trunk, she found her dress had been
caught in the lid; she could not move away from it! What was
worse, she was so fastened to the trunk that she could not lean
forward far enough to turn the key back, to unlock the trunk and
release herself! The lock had slipped easily, but she could not now
get hold of the key in the right way to turn it back.
She tried to pull her dress away. No, it was caught too firmly. She
called for help to her mother or Amanda, to come and open the
trunk. But her door was shut.
Nobody near enough to hear! She tried to pull the trunk toward the
door, to open it and make herself heard; but it was so heavy that,
in her constrained position, she could not stir it.
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