The Beech Walk is watched by night and by day.

Claudine is little better than a tool in the hands of Edwards, the valet, with whom she is in love.

She tells everything to Edwards, and Edwards repeats to his master.

A quarter past eleven all will be still--the household will have retired--you may venture forth in safety.

The night will be dark, the way lonely and dismal; but you know it every inch.