her hand on her heart as though to still its throbbings.]
[He sits by the central table.]
[While Emma places the venison on the table, David,
who has his eyes on Charles, drops a dish, waking the
latter.]
[He mumbles an Ave Maria while all cross
themselves and sit down. Emma carves the venison,
Eginhardt opens his book. Charles stares wonderingly
round.]
[He reads from Chapter XII. of the Nineteenth Book of