Then I returned to the shutters, and saw my tutor and Dame Perronnette go out together.

I was alone in the house.

They had hardly closed the gate before I sprang from the window and ran to the well.

Then, just as my governor had leaned over, so leaned I.Something white and luminous glistened in the green and quivering silence of the water.

The brilliant disk fascinated and allured me; my eyes became fixed, and I could hardly breathe.