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He pushed her back into the room , and said , in a tone furious with indignation : `` It 's done . The accident has occurred . And yet none of the old servants can have prepared it , because they were not there and because I was out with the car this afternoon . Therefore , it must have been late in the day between six and nine o'clock , that somebody went to the garage and filed the steering-rod three quarters through . '' `` I do n't understand . I do n't understand , '' she said , with a scared look . `` You understand perfectly well that the accomplice of the ruffians can not be one of the new servants , and you understand perfectly well that the job was bound to succeed and that it did succeed , beyond their hopes .