At his own door he stopped again and listened.

This time he could hear voices, a low and unintelligible murmur.

It was quite easy for him to locate the sound.
He moved across to the other door, and hesitated.

He had already disobeyed Josephine's injunction to remain with her father.

Should he take a further advantage by obeying John Adare's command to bring his wife and daughter?
A strange and subdued excitement was stirring him.
Since the appearance of the threatening face at his window--the knowledge that in another moment he would have invited death from out of the night--he felt that he was no longer utterly in the hands of the woman he loved.