I know." After a while Laodice looked about her.

The entrance to their refuge was about the middle of the ruin and therefore a great many paces back from the streets, so that she did not see Jerusalem's agonies face to face.

But she saw enough to make her cold and to turn her shivering and panic-stricken into the darkness of the crypt below.
She saw the ascending streets of Zion and the tall fortifications mounting the heights within the city's limits.

There she saw the flash of swords, swung afar off, spears brandished and the running hither and thither of defenders on the wall.

Below she saw the remote constricted passages between rows of desolate houses, moving with people, sounding with clamor.