Place both your hands on the temples of the figures; pull as if you were pulling it towards you--and the hearthstone will revolve into its proper position again.
'You need read no farther,' said the Countess.

'Be careful to remember what you have read.' She put back the page of vellum in her writing-desk, locked it, and led the way to the door.
'Come!' she said; 'and see what the mocking Frenchman called "The beginning of the end."' Agnes was barely able to rise from her chair; she trembled from head to foot.

Henry gave her his arm to support her.

'Fear nothing,' he whispered; 'I shall be with you.' The Countess proceeded along the westward corridor, and stopped at the door numbered Thirty-eight.

This was the room which had been inhabited by Baron Rivar in the old days of the palace: it was situated immediately over the bedchamber in which Agnes had passed the night.
For the last two days the room had been empty.