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"I knew," was Gahan's only comment, but his heart was glad with elation, as a
lover's must be who has heard from the lips of his divinity an avowal of interest
and loyalty, however little tinged by a suggestion of warmer regard it may be. To
be abused, even, by the mistress of one's heart is better than to be ignored.
As the two conversed in the ill-lit chamber, the dim bulbs of which were
encrusted with the accumulated dust of centuries, a bent and withered figure
traversed slowly the gloomy corridors without, his weak and watery eyes peering
through thick lenses at the signs of passage written upon the dusty floor.
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