stable-entrance

Updated: June 14, 2025

So they went in silence, doing as she bade them, and walked back through the gardens, that now seemed empty enough, to the stable-entrance of the guest-house, where the guards admitted them without question. That night the brethren slept together in one bed, fearing that if they lay separate they might be searched in their sleep and not awake.

Henry Rider Haggard - The Brethren