I heard her, as I thought, lock the door, then she came back into our room and also locked the door leading from it into the tapestry room.
"'You needn't lock that too,' I said sleepily; 'if the tapestry door is locked, we're all right!' "'I think it's better,' said Mary quietly, and then we undressed, so far as we could manage to do so in the extremely limited state of our toilet arrangements, and went to bed.
"I fell asleep at once.

Mary, she afterwards told me, lay awake for an hour or two, so that when she did fall asleep her slumber was unusually profound.

I think it must have been about midnight when I woke suddenly, with the feeling--the indescribable feeling--that something had awakened me.

I listened, first of all with _only_ the ear that happened to be uppermost--then, as my courage gradually returned again, I ventured to move slightly, so that both ears were uncovered.

No, nothing was to be heard.