These commands were not obeyed, and Susannah, hearing that the intruder remained, began in fear to suspect the meaning of the intrusion.

As she rose the report of a fire-arm startled her from all the remnants of her selfish dulness, causing her feet to fly.
From within the sitting-room she saw the entrance-hall.

Its door was open to the wide sweep of land that lay in floods of sunshine.

In the light, half turning now to go as he had come, stood Angel Halsey.

Her eager eyes drank in the sight of him, because last night she had thought to see him die.