Was Carwin aware of his absence on this night?
Could he be suspected of a design so sordid as pillage?
If this were his view there were no means in my power to frustrate it.

It behoved me to seize the first opportunity to escape; but if my escape were supposed by my enemy to have been already effected, no asylum was more secure than the present.

How could my passage from the house be accomplished without noises that might incite him to pursue me?
Utterly at a loss to account for his going into Pleyel's chamber, I waited in instant expectation of hearing him come forth.

All, however, was profoundly still.

I listened in vain for a considerable period, to catch the sound of the door when it should again be opened.