The nurse took up a lighted taper by the table beside her and passed it in front of the opened eye.

The man closed the eyelid, and turned and said something to the Countess and the other man.

The Countess nodded and smiled, not quite as a man likes to see a woman smile, and, with a swift glance at the motionless figure on the bed, turned away and left the room.

The nurse said something to the two men, and as the door closed behind her the scene changed again.
This time he was not looking into a window, but out of one.

He was gazing over a vast expanse of forest pierced by a broad, straight road which led for several miles, as it seemed to him, between two dark walls of thickly-growing pines until it ended abruptly with the forest and opened out on a tiny sand-fringed inlet whose narrow mouth was guarded by two little outcrops of rock half a mile to seaward.
A carriage drawn by four black horses rolled rapidly along the road, swung out on to the beach, and stopped.