All was still in the room, but her terror made wild noises in her ears.

The two men might have spoken now and she could not have heard them,--nor the opening of a door, nor any ordinary sound.

It was no longer the fear of being heard, either, that made her silent.

Her throat was parched and her tongue paralyzed.

She remembered suddenly that Don John had been unarmed, and how he had pointed out to Philip that his sword lay on the table.