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Ruth saw it, but said nothing until night came, when she sent Jonathan from her bedside with the words, "Go and meet him?" An hour afterwards she heard double steps on the stone walk in front of the house. They came slowly to the door; it opened; she heard them along the hall and ascending the stairs; then the chamber-lamp showed her the two faces, bright with a single, unutterable joy.
When the quiet of the abbey was only interrupted by the howling of the wind, or by the loud and prolonged laughs which echoed through the passages from the joyous pair, who were thus comfortably established by the side of the bottle, a door was gently opened on one of the galleries of the "cloisters," and Katherine Plowden issued from it, wrapped in a close mantle, and holding in her hand a chamber-lamp, which threw its dim light faintly along the gloomy walls in front, leaving all behind her obscured in darkness.
Miss Wimple took up the dim chamber-lamp, and led Madeline down the stairs, both silent, calm: those were not crying women.
This feeling, however, slowly subsided, especially after assuring himself, by the aid of his chamber-lamp, that the note was a genuine one, and not, as he had half feared, a valueless deception. 'This Monsieur Derville, drowsily murmured Bertrand as he ensconced himself in the bed-clothes, 'is a bon enfant, after all a generous, magnanimous prince, if ever there was one.
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