I passed them unseen, climbed the stairs to the leads--I have been up twice before--and crossed the roofs.

I knew I could come this way unseen, and if I had come by the door----" She understood and cut him short.

"Then go as you came and rouse the watch in the gate!" she cried feverishly.

"Rouse them and all, and Heaven grant you be not too late! Go, Claude, for the love of me, for the love of God, go quickly!" Her hands on his arm shook with eagerness.
"So that, if there be treachery here----" "There is treachery!" he said darkly.

"Grio----" "We at least shall have no part in it! You will go?
You will go ?" she repeated, clinging to his arm, trembling against him, looking up to him with eyes which he could not resist.