I prayed that she might not forget that she was to be the victim of a brutal attempt at two o'clock precisely.

I was rather amused at the part I had assigned to my young friend Rupert Hentzau; but I owed him a stroke--for, even as I sat, my shoulder ached where he had, with an audacity that seemed half to hide his treachery, struck at me, in the sight of all my friends, on the terrace at Tarlenheim.
Suddenly the duke's window grew bright.

The shutters were not closed, and the interior became partially visible to me as I cautiously raised myself till I stood on tiptoe.

Thus placed, my range of sight embraced a yard or more inside the window, while the radius of light did not reach me.

The window was flung open and someone looked out.