Helene Vauquier was in the plot, too.

The scarf at Celia's mouth was proof of that.

As if to add proof to proof, she heard Adele Rossignol speak in answer to the signal.
"Are we all ready?
Have you got Mme.

Dauvray's left hand, Helene ?" "Yes, madame," answered the maid.
"And I have her right hand.

Now give me yours, and thus we are in a circle about the table." Celia, in her mind, could see them sitting about the round table in the darkness, Mme.