And he had hoped they might never meet again! The murderous scoundrels had been watching.

They must have entered the apartment shortly after he had entered hers.

Conceivably they would have Gregor's key.

And they had watched and waited, striking him down it may have been at the very moment he had crossed the sill of the window.
Her hand shook so idiotically that it was impossible for a time to tell if the man's heart was beating.

All at once a wave of hot fury rushed over her--fury at the cowardliness of the assault--and the vertigo passed.