She therefore sat very still.
Then, after taking one more sip from her glass, she put it down on one of the small tables near to her.
“I expect now you would like to see your bedroom,” Magnus Fane next volunteered, as if he felt, as she had, that there was no more to be said on the subject under discussion.
“Thank you.”
She rose to her feet and followed him to the door. Then before he turned the handle he said,
“Let me assure you once again that there is no escape from the bedroom which I have chosen for you. At the same time, in case you should think of trying anything so foolhardy, the door will be locked at night. I would also point out that there is a thirty foot drop from the window and to clamber out of it would merely mean that you would break your neck!”
“How kind of you to w
