His look was fastened now upon the door by which the Prince Pasha would enter, now upon the door through which he had passed to the rescue of the English girl, whom he had seen drive off safely with her maid.

In their swift passage from the Palace to the carriage, a thing had been done of even greater moment than the killing of the sensualist in the next room.
In the journey to the gateway the girl David served had begged him to escape with her.

This he had almost sharply declined; it would be no escape, he had said.

She had urged that no one knew.

He had replied that Kaid would come again for him, and suspicion would be aroused if he were gone.
"Thee has safety," he had said.