Then she moved towards the window, and with an affrighted gesture drew the curtain rapidly aside.
Our eyes met.

What if she screamed and aroused the house?
What, indeed?
"Madame," I said again, speaking hurriedly, and striving to reassure her by the softness of my voice, "we implore your help! Unless you assist us we are lost." "You! Who are you ?" she cried, glaring at us wildly, her hand to her head.

And then she murmured to herself, "Mon Dieu! what will become of me ?" "We have been imprisoned in the house opposite," I hastened to explain, disjointedly I am afraid.

"And we have escaped.

We cannot get back if we would.