I hardly know how to tell you.

For several nights, I seemed to hear, both in the park and out of the park, round the pavilion, unusual sounds, sometimes footsteps, at other times the cracking of branches.
The night before the attack on me, when I did not get to bed before three o'clock in the morning, on our return from the Elysee, I stood for a moment before my window, and I felt sure I saw shadows.
"Q.

How many?
"A.

Two.

They moved round the lake,--then the moon became clouded and I lost sight of them.