Chapter SixFabian put his arms around Loretta and held her close against him.
Then, as she hid her face against his shoulder, she murmured in a voice he could hardly hear,
“I-I have – k-killed him! W-will I be taken to p-prison – and be – guillotined?”
He felt her whole body tremble at the thought and said quietly and calmly,
“It’s all right, my darling, leave everything to me.”
As he spoke, he drew her through the curtains and an open window onto the balcony.
Because she was still clinging to him desperately, he very gently moved her to the support of the stone balustrade and suggested,
“Stand here and breathe deeply. I am going back to see exactly what has happened.”
“H-he is – d-dead!”
Obeying almost like a child what Fabian had told her to do, she clung onto the balustrade, fe
