Scarcely had I taken the pen when I laid it aside, uncertain in what manner to address you.
I rose from the table and walked across the floor.

A glance thrown upon the bed acquainted me with a spectacle to which my conceptions of horror had not yet reached.
"In the midst of shuddering and trepidation, the signal of your presence in the court below recalled me to myself.

The deed was newly done: I only was in the house: what had lately happened justified any suspicions, however enormous.

It was plain that this catastrophe was unknown to you: I thought upon the wild commotion which the discovery would awaken in your breast: I found the confusion of my own thoughts unconquerable, and perceived that the end for which I sought an interview was not now to be accomplished.
"In this state of things it was likewise expedient to conceal my being within.

I put out the light and hurried down stairs.