was enclosed on its outer side by a wall of prodigious stones, in which, for ventilation, narrow apertures were left bevelled like modern port-holes.

Herod, when he took hold of the Temple and Tower, put a facing yet more massive upon this outer wall, and shut up all the apertures but one, which yet admitted a little vitalizing air, and a ray of light not nearly strong enough to redeem the room from darkness.
Such was cell VI.
Startle not now! The description of the blind and tongueless wretch just liberated from cell V.may be accepted to break the horror of what is coming.
The two women are grouped close by the aperture; one is seated, the other is half reclining against her; there is nothing between them and the bare rock.

The light, slanting upwards, strikes them with ghastly effect, and we cannot avoid seeing they are without vesture or covering.

At the same time we are helped to the knowledge that love is there yet, for the two are in each other's arms.
Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away, but love stays with us.

Love is God.
Where the two are thus grouped the stony floor is polished shining smooth.