The Place St.Denis was now lit up, lights shone from the hotel windows, and the world without the cathedral had so far advanced in nocturnal change that it seemed as if they had been gone from it for hours.

Within the hotel they found the change even greater than without.

Mrs.Goodman met them half-way on the stairs.
'Poor Charlotte is worse,' she said.

'Quite feverish, and almost delirious.' Paula reproached herself with 'Why did I go away!' The common interest of De Stancy and Paula in the sufferer at once reproduced an ease between them as nothing else could have done.

The physician was again called in, who prescribed certain draughts, and recommended that some one should sit up with her that night.