She sat still and almost breathless.

She could hear nothing and saw nothing but, between the leafage, a dim gleam of white.

Only Ameerah wore white.
After a few seconds' waiting she began to think a strange thing, though she presently realised that, taking all things into consideration, it was not strange at all.

She got up very noiselessly and stole into her husband's room.

He was not there; the bed was empty, though he had slept there earlier in the night.
She went back to her own bed and got into it again.