Still Ambrosio affected not to observe them.
The Physician arrived, while He was conversing with Antonia.

It was dark already; Lights were called for, and Flora was compelled to descend for them herself.

However, as She left a third Person in the room, and expected to be absent but a few minutes, She believed that She risqued nothing in quitting her post.

No sooner had She left the room, than Ambrosio moved towards the Table, on which stood Antonia's medicine: It was placed in a recess of the window.

The Physician seated in an armed-chair, and employed in questioning his Patient, paid no attention to the proceedings of the Monk.