Oh! that I must stay here and see her thus, who dare not show myself! If she could but know! If she could but know!" Nehushta thrust him aside and took his place.

Fixing her eyes upon Miriam she made some effort of the will, so fierce and concentrated that beneath the strain her body shook and quivered.

See! Her thought reached the captive, for she looked up.
"Stand to one side," she whispered to Marcus, then unlatched the shutters and slowly pushed them open.

Now between her and the air was nothing but the silken curtains.

Very gently she parted these with her hands, for some few seconds suffering her face to be seen between them.
Then laying her fingers on her lips she drew back and they closed again.
"It is well," she said, "she knows." "Let her see me also," said Marcus.
"Nay, she can bear no more.