No; contrary to my expectation, nothing of the kind appeared.

None came to the spot which had been so crowded the night before; none paid even a passing visit.

The room was recognised as an empty room, with no previous examination, such as would apparently be necessary to contradict the memory of the place.

A more positive guide than memory called them elsewhere.
Hitherto the female was always visible, behind the meshes of the wire-gauze cover.

The visitors, seeing plainly in the dark night, must have been able to see her by the vague luminosity of what for us is the dark.