and slowly, majestically, the whole scarlet dress of Red Death met his eyes.

And he once more saw the death's head of Perros-Guirec.
"It's he!" he exclaimed.

"This time, he shall not escape me! ..." But Christian{sic} had slammed the door at the moment when Raoul was on the point of rushing out.

He tried to push her aside.
"Whom do you mean by 'he' ?" she asked, in a changed voice.

"Who shall not escape you ?" Raoul tried to overcome the girl's resistance by force, but she repelled him with a strength which he would not have suspected in her.
He understood, or thought he understood, and at once lost his temper.
"Who ?" he repeated angrily.