What is this?
Don't they see him?
Why does he not speak to them?
He seems transfixed.
Rustle, thump! rustle, thump; accompanied now for a few notes by one voice only, Rose's.
Suddenly there burst a shriek from Josephine, so loud, so fearful, that it made even Raynal stagger back a step, the screen in his hand.
Then another scream of terror and anguish from Rose.

Then a fainter cry, and the heavy helpless fall of a human body.
Raynal sprang forward whirling the screen to the earth in terrible agitation, and Edouard bounded over it as it fell at his feet.

He did not take a second step.

The scene that caught his eye stupefied and paralyzed him in full career, and froze him to the spot with amazement and strange misgivings..