From that moment, he was watching the case.

Mr.Gallilee alone looked round--when the nurse tightened her hold in a last merciless grasp; dashed the insensible woman on the floor; and, turning back, fell on her knees at her darling's feet.
She looked up in Carmina's face.
A ghastly stare, through half-closed eyes, showed death in life, blankly returning her look.

The shock had struck Carmina with a stony calm.

She had not started, she had not swooned.

Rigid, immovable, there she sat; voiceless and tearless; insensible even to touch; her arms hanging down; her clenched hands resting on either side of her.
Teresa grovelled and groaned at her feet.