Some sense of her presence must have communicated itself to him, for he began to mutter in his sleep, now in English, now in Arabic.

She became intensely interested; as her every movement showed.

Then rising suddenly she glided across the room on tiptoe to look at me.

Seeing her coming I feigned to be asleep, and so well that she was deceived.
For I was also interested.

Who was this lady whom the Guardian had called the Khania of Kaloon?
Could it be she whom we sought?
Why not?
And yet if I saw Ayesha, surely I should know her, surely there would be no room for doubt.
Back she went again to the bed, kneeling down beside Leo, and in the intense silence which followed--for he had ceased his mutterings--I thought that I could hear the beating of her heart.