No noise came to their ears but the brawling of the torrent.

That, however, filled the room, drowning all the natural murmurs of the night.
"Indeed, one would not hear a company of soldiers," said Clementina.

She crossed to the window.
"Yet you heard my step, and it waked you," said Wogan, as he followed her.
"I listened for it in my sleep," said she.
For a second time that night they stood side by side looking upon darkness and the spangled sky.

Only there was no courtyard with its signs of habitation.

Clementina drew herself away suddenly from the sill.