The windows of the rooms on that side, lately occupied by Provis, were dark and still, and there was no lounger in Garden Court.

I walked past the fountain twice or thrice before I descended the steps that were between me and my rooms, but I was quite alone.

Herbert, coming to my bedside when he came in,--for I went straight to bed, dispirited and fatigued,--made the same report.

Opening one of the windows after that, he looked out into the moonlight, and told me that the pavement was a solemnly empty as the pavement of any cathedral at that same hour.
Next day I set myself to get the boat.

It was soon done, and the boat was brought round to the Temple stairs, and lay where I could reach her within a minute or two.