How late was it?
She hastily tried to draw the curtains aside from the window, but this was not accomplished as quickly as she expected--they had been care fully fastened with pins.

Eva noticed it, and suddenly remembered her father's whispered words to Els.
They were undoubtedly about the window.

According to the calendar, the moon would be full that day, and she knew very well that it had a strange influence upon her.

True, within the past year it appeared to have lost its power; but formerly, especially when she had devoted herself very earnestly to religious exercises, she had often, without knowing how or why, left her bed and wandered about, not only in her chamber but through the house.

Once she had climbed to the dovecot in the courtyard, and another time had mounted to the garret where, she did not know in what way, she had been awakened.