Erik, do put out the light in the little window!" For she saw that this light, which appeared so suddenly and of which the monster had spoken in so threatening a voice, must mean something terrible.

One thing must have pacified her for a moment; and that was seeing the two of us, behind the wall, in the midst of that resplendent light, alive and well.

But she would certainly have felt much easier if the light had been put out.
Meantime, the other had already begun to play the ventriloquist.

He said: "Here, I raise my mask a little ...

Oh, only a little! ...