How then could he spend hours, perhaps days and weeks, searching for another entrance in a house which he had already noticed, where almost every room was panelled?
‘What can I do?’ he asked himself.
Now his desire to see Demelza was increased a thousand-fold simply because she was elusive.
“I have to see her! I will see her!” he said aloud, and swore beneath his breath that he would not be defeated.
Without consciously realising what he was doing since he was concentrating so completely on the problem that beset him, he opened the door of his bedroom and walked slowly and thoughtfully down the corridor.
He was in fact working out how the house was constructed and trying to guess where the walls were most likely to be wide enough to contain a passage.
At the same time he wanted to co
