Her friend having answered in a calmer voice, "Nothing," she passed her, entering the chapel, and listened to the monk's explanations.

Then the black figure moved away from the wall.

Jeanne saw it slowly mounting in the dim light, under the pointed arches.

On the upper landing the figure turned to the right, and disappeared, to reappear almost immediately on an arm of the stair, crossing the slanting background of the scene, and brilliant in the light of an invisible window.

The figure mounted slowly, almost wearily.
Before it vanished behind the enormous flank of an arch, it bent its head and looked down.