But dress me as well as you are able, only make haste; think, my dear girl, it's life and death!" Kitty was but too well aware of that.

In a turn of the hand she muffled him up in a flowered robe, a large hood, and a cloak.

She gave him some slippers, in which he placed his naked feet, and then conducted him down the stairs.

It was time.

Milady had already rung her bell, and roused the whole hotel.