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Tired, he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. -POPE (_Essay on Man_).
Ellinor, after hastily donning a few garments, stole on light foot in her visitors' wake and reached the cross-door at the instant when, on the other side, the key was being turned by Margery. There she waited in the darkness until voices and footsteps had died away beyond, when, feeling for the old disused bolt on the inside, she drew it into its socket. Then she ran back to her own room. She had arduous work to perform before Margery should have time to return round by all the basement passages to the keep wing and resume her office of spy. She had, by some means or other, to convey David back to his tower so that none should ever know the truth of this night's events-none but he and she.