Fear seized hold of her.

It was a big room, and furtively she peered into the corners lest already hidden behind some curtain the thief should be there.
But always her eyes returned to the window.

If she only dared! She ran to her trunks.

From one of them she took out from its deep hiding-place a small jewel-case, a jewel-case very like to that one which a few months ago she had sealed up in her tent and addressed to Kohara.

She left it on her dressing-table.