5. FROM ELEVEN O'CLOCK TO MIDNIGHTWhen Manston was persuaded, by the feigned heaviness of her
breathing, that Anne Seaway was asleep, he softly arose, and
dressed himself in the gloom. With ears strained to their utmost
she heard him complete this operation; then he took something from
his pocket, put it in the drawer of the dressing-table, went to the
door, and down the stairs. She glided out of bed and looked in the
drawer. He had only restored to its place a small phial she had
seen there before. It was labelled 'Battley's Solution of Opium.'
She felt relieved that her life had not been attempted. That was to
have been her sleeping-draught. No time was to be lost if she meant
to be a match for him. She followed him in her nightdress. When she
reached the foot of the staircase
