At all events, Captain Misset and his wife will surely come down the road to-morrow.

If I rap twice upon your door, you will take that for my signal.

But it is very likely I shall not rap at all." Wogan shivered as he spoke.

It was not for the first time during that conversation, and a little later, as they stood together in the passage by the stair-head, Clementina twice remarked that he shivered again.
There was an oil lamp burning against the passage wall, and by its light she could see that on that warm night of spring his face was pinched with cold.

He was in truth chilled to the bone through lack of sleep; his eyes had the strained look of a man strung to the breaking point, and at the sight of him the mother in her was touched.
"What if I watched to-night ?" she said.