"Where's Fricker ?" Caryl shrugged his shoulders.
"You have seen him since I have.

Are you going to get out?
Ah, I thought you would." He stood aside to allow him to do so, and then stepped back to shut the door.

He did not utter a word to the girl cowering within, but that action of his was a mute command.

She crouched in the dark and listened, but she did not dare to follow or to flee..