What does the use of foreshadowing in this passage
suggest to the reader?
"May I see the envelope?"
"This isn't the one I was keeping the seven dollars in" -
she handed him the envelope – "though it looks the
same. I have a box of them in my locker there. The lock
hasn't worked for ages. This one must have been stolen
from my locker yesterday, or earlier this week."
"Object Lesson,"
Ellery Queen
that Ellery Queen will eventually examine the locker
that Miss Carpenter was careless with the money
that the students were responsible for the broken
lock
that envelopes often get mixed up in crowds