She would be more comfortable here; and the English nurse might keep her company." Captain Arnault smiled, not very pleasantly.

"They are two fine women," he said, "and Surgeon Surville is a ladies' man.

Let them come in, if they are rash enough to trust themselves here with you." He checked himself on the point of going out, and looked back distrustfully at the lighted candle.

"Caution the women," he said, "to limit the exercise of their curiosity to the inside of this room." "What do you mean ?" The captain's forefinger pointed significantly to the closed window-shutter.
"Did you ever know a woman who could resist looking out of window ?" he asked.

"Dark as it is, sooner or later these ladies of yours will feel tempted to open that shutter.