For a moment she did not answer.

Then-- "A minister," she muttered, her voice scarcely audible.
He nodded.

"A minister," he said lightly.

"Very well, if I can find one." And walking to the shattered, gaping casement--through which the cool morning air blew into the room and gently stirred the hair of the unhappy girl--he said some words to the man on guard outside.

Then he turned to the door, but on the threshold he paused, looked with a strange expression at the pair, and signed to Carlat and the servants to go out before him.
"Up, and lie close above!" he growled.