Was it suddenly extinguished by a human agent?
What purpose but concealment was intended?
Why was the illumination produced, to be thus suddenly brought to an end?
And why, since some one was there, had silence been observed?
These were questions, the solution of which may be readily supposed to be entangled with danger.

Would not this danger, when measured by a woman's fears, expand into gigantic dimensions?
Menaces of death; the stunning exertions of a warning voice; the known and unknown attributes of Carwin; our recent interview in this chamber; the pre-appointment of a meeting at this place and hour, all thronged into my memory.

What was to be done?
Courage is no definite or stedfast principle.

Let that man who shall purpose to assign motives to the actions of another, blush at his folly and forbear.

Not more presumptuous would it be to attempt the classification of all nature, and the scanning of supreme intelligence.
I gazed for a minute at the window, and fixed my eyes, for a second minute, on the ground.