But no answer was returned, and she soon became convinced that Judith had fastened the door of the charnel, which, it will be remembered, lay between the vault and the body of Saint Faith's.
Hence, no sound could teach the outer structure.

Disturbed by what had just occurred.

Leonard's senses again wandered; but, exerting all her powers to tranquillize him, Nizza at last succeeded so well that he sunk into a slumber.
Almost regarding his situation as hopeless, she took up the lamp, and searching the vault, found the pan containing the half-made poultice.
The fire smouldered on the hearth, and replenishing it from a scanty supply in one corner, she heated the poultice and applied it to the tumour.

This done, she continued her search.

But though she found several phials, each bearing the name of some remedy for the pestilence, her distrust of Judith would not allow her to use any of them.