Durrance drew back a step from the window, and for a little while was silent.
"Where has she gone ?" he asked at length.
"Into the garden.

She ran across the terrace and down the steps very quickly and silently.

I saw her from my chair.

Then I heard you speaking alone." "Can you see her now in the garden ?" "No; she went across the lawn towards the trees and their great shadows.
There is only the moonlight in the garden now." Durrance stepped across the window sill and stood by the side of Mrs.
Adair.

The last slip which Ethne had made betrayed her inevitably to the man who had grown quick.