My bedroom is next door.

If any one is heard coming, you must hide there.

I will go in at once and change my dress for a dressing-gown, and I can then lock the door; so that if any one comes, there will be time for you to go in there, and when I open it, and say I am preparing for bed, it will account for the door being locked." She did as she had said, and then produced from a cupboard a box of biscuits and a decanter of wine, which she placed before them.
"You must be starving," she said.

"I am sorry that I have nothing more to offer you, but it was impossible for me to get any food.

I have been thinking all day," she went on, as the boys fell to at the biscuits, "how you are to be smuggled out; I can only think of one plan, and that is a fearfully dangerous one.