"No doubt you will find that drunken booby as wrong in what he told you about them as he is about everything else." Lomaque made use of the privilege granted to him immediately.

He saw Trudaine sitting with his sister in the corner of the cell furthest from the door, evidently for the purpose of preventing her from overhearing the conversation outside.

There was an unsettled look, however, in her eyes, a slowly-heightening color in her cheeks, which showed her to be at least vaguely aware that something unusual had been taking place in the corridor.
Lomaque beckoned to Trudaine to leave her, and whispered to him: "The prescription has worked well.

You are safe for to-day.

Break the news to your sister as gently as you can.