Now, Abbot Milo," he concluded, "cover the face." So I did, and Count John got up to his knees again, and looked at his brother.
'This was not the end.

Madame Alois of France came into the church through the nuns' door, dressed all in grey, with a great grey hood on her head, and after her women in the same habit.

She came hastily, with a quick shuffling motion of the feet, as if she was gliding; and by the bier she stood still, questing with her eyes from side to side, like a hunted thing.

King Richard she saw, for he was standing up; but still she looked about and about.

Now Count John was kneeling in the shadow, so she saw him last; but once meeting his deplorable eyes with her own she never left go again.