CHAPTER XXXI. AN INTERLUDE

It was close on midnight now, and still they sat opposite one another, he the friend and she the wife, talking over that brief half-hour that had meant an eternity to her.

Marguerite had tried to tell Sir Andrew everything; bitter as it was to put into actual words the pathos and misery which she had witnessed, yet she would hide nothing from the devoted comrade whom she knew Percy would trust absolutely. To him she repeated every word that Percy had uttered, described every inflection of his voice, those enigmatical phrases which she had not understood, and together they cheated one another into the belief that hope lingered somewhere hidden in those words.

"I am not going to despair, Lady Blakeney," said Sir Andrew firmly; "and, moreover, we are not going to disobey. I would stake my life that even now Blakeney has some scheme in his mind which is embodied in the various letters which he has given you, and which--Heaven help us in that case!--we might thwart by disobedience. Tomorrow in the late afternoon I will escort you to the Rue de Charonne. It is a house that we all know well, and which Armand, of course, knows too. I had already inquired there two days ago to ascertain whether by chance St. Just was not in hiding there, but Lucas, the landlord and old-clothes dealer, knew nothing about him."

Marguerite told him about her swift vision of Armand in the dark corridor of the house of Justice.

1. What time was it now?
2. did they still sit opposite each other?
3. how long did they talk?
4. was she the friend?
5. who did Percy trust completely?
6. did she try telling everything to andrew?
7. whose words did you repeat?
8. did percy use enigmatical phrases?
9. who did sir andrew escort to Rue de Charonne?
10. did andrew despair?
11. did he say they would obey?
12. who else knew about the house?
13. how long ago did andrew ask if St.Just was hiding at Charonne?
14. did he ask lucas about him?
15. who had a vision?
16. who did she have a vision about?
17. was he in the corridor?
1. close to midnight
2. yes
3. a half-hour
4. no ,he was
5. Sir Andrew
6. definitely
7. Percy's
8. yes
9. Lady Blakeney
10. no
11. in the double negative, yes
12. everyone
13. two days ago
14. he did
15. Marguerite
16. of Armand
17. indeed