When the cat saw his old enemy he struggled to get down; but Margaret held him fast and soothed him.

I looked at my watch.

It was close to eight.
When Margaret was with us her father said directly, with a quiet insistence which was new to me: "You believe, Margaret, that Queen Tera has voluntarily undertaken to give up her freedom for this night?
To become a mummy and nothing more, till the Experiment has been completed?
To be content that she shall be powerless under all and any circumstances until after all is over and the act of resurrection has been accomplished, or the effort has failed ?" After a pause Margaret answered in a low voice: "Yes!" In the pause her whole being, appearance, expression, voice, manner had changed.

Even Silvio noticed it, and with a violent effort wriggled away from her arms; she did not seem to notice the act.

I expected that the cat, when he had achieved his freedom, would have attacked the mummy; but on this occasion he did not.