Jean has already put his mask back on, though he still has his regular clothes on. He now makes a reassuring gesture and quickly steps across the floor to her.
“I let you know I would come, Miss D’Southy,” he says in the deep bass voice he usually speaks with when playing the role of the Masked Robber.
“But how did you get in?” she whispers hoarsely. “You said there would be an explosion.”
“I decided to come before the explosion happened, Miss. The noise outside is loud enough to distract everyone’s attention anyway.”
Sylvia stands hesitantly. She does not know what to do. She realizes that if this man is caught, it could mean Marcus’s freedom. But now that she sees him again, those same feelings of trust and hope rise in her that she experienced when he talked to her on the beach that
