I have some friends who are faithful to me." After a pause she added, "She has been here already." He looked at her, startled.

"Impossible--I"-- "You locked the door.

Yes! but she has a second key.

And even if she had not, there is another entrance from that closet.

You do not know this house: you have been here two weeks; I spent two years of my life, as a girl, in this room." An indescribable sensation came over him; he remembered how he had felt when he first occupied it; this was followed by a keen sense of shame on reflecting that he had been, ever since, but a helpless puppet in the power of his enemies, and that she could have escaped if she would, even now.
"Perhaps," he said grimly, "you have already arranged your plans ?" She looked at him with a singular reproachfulness even in her submission.
"I have only told her to be ready to change clothes with me and help me color my face and hands at the time appointed.