Then first they knew that the wind was howling and the rain falling in sheets.

But there was no rest for them even there.

Thither also were they followed by the inexorable avengers, and the only door here was a door out of the palace: out every soul of them was driven, and left, some standing, some lying, some crawling, to the farther buffeting of the waterspouts and whirlwinds ranging every street of the city.

The door was flung to behind them, and they heard it locked and bolted and barred against them..