They waited for some time in vain.

At last one or two lights in front were lit, the music grew more insistent.

A girl who seemed to be dressed in little more than a winding veil, glided on to the stage, swaying and moving slowly to the rhythm of the monotonous music.

She danced a measure which none of them except the Professor had ever seen before, coming now and then so close that they could almost feel her hot breath, and Lenora felt somehow vaguely disturbed by the glitter of her eyes.

An odd perfume was shaken into the air around them from her one flowing garment, through which her limbs continually flashed.