Surely by this time he was far away, in the Arsenal, or in some place of refuge! And she might take courage, and feel that for this day the peril was overpast.
"Mademoiselle will have the lights now ?" one of the women ventured.
"No! no!" she answered feverishly, and she continued to crouch where she was on the stairs, bathing herself and her burning face in the darkness and coolness of the stairway.

The air entered freely through a window at her elbow, and the place was fresher, were that all, than the room she had left.

Javette began to whimper, but she paid no heed to her; a man came and went along the passage below, and she heard the outer door unbarred, and the jarring tread of three or four men who passed through it.

But all without disturbance; and afterwards the house was quiet again.

And as on this Monday evening the prime virulence of the massacre had begun to abate--though it held after a fashion to the end of the week--Paris without was quiet also.