CHAPTER XXXVIIBoth the booming of guns and the organ-music had ceased when Angelica waked in the late twilight and saw, with a sense of relief preceding surprise, that Venetia was not there.
She found the door was unbarred, and concluded, with reason enough, that she had been fetched while she slept, by Sir Oliver’s order or as a result of information given by him; and that, as she had not waked, she had been left in peace by those who had no mission to her.
She dropped the bolt with a pleasant sense of having regained a privacy that she had been vexed to lose, and seeing that night was near and having no reluctance for further rest, she threw off the clothes that she had been wearing till then and slept till the morning came.
It was not till she waked again that she discovered that not
