4/57 But her mind remained full of misgivings, and her inner consciousness peopled the obscurity of the street below with lurking figures. She retired from the window and laid down on her bed, not to sleep, but to think. Her fright had turned her mind temporarily from the contemplation of a greater disaster. That was the arrest of Charles Turold. She had learnt the news from an evening paper which she had bought at the corner of the street. |