"I--I thought I heard a cry, and--and I came to see what had happened." Her voice shook with terror; but what she beheld would have been quite enough to account for that.
The guard filed in through the doors from the official quarters, a sergeant with a halbert in one hand and a lantern in the other, followed by four men, and lastly by Mullins.

They halted and came to attention before Sir Terence.

And almost at the same moment there was a sharp rattling knock on the wicket in the great closed gates through which Samoval had entered.

Startled, but without showing any signs of it, Sir Terence bade Mullins go open, and in a general silence all waited to see who it was that came.
A tall man, bowing his shoulders to pass under the low lintel of that narrow door, stepped over the sill and into the courtyard.

He wore a cocked hat, and as his great cavalry cloak fell open the yellow rays of the sergeant's lantern gleamed faintly on a British uniform.