And we both listened.
"It's a step outside, on the gravel path," said I, my heart beginning to knock against my side.

"I forgot to lock the gate.

Somebody has come into the garden.

What if it should be Raoul--what if he has seen our shadows on the curtain ?" Mechanically we moved apart, Ivor making a gesture to reassure me, on account of the position of the lights.

He was right.