The heavy, unpleasant feeling deepened.
Scarcely one of them had the courage to address her again.
An oppressive silence fell upon them all.
They looked at each other in silent, awkward expectation, all, bold desperadoes as they were, cowed into silence by her manner.
"You succeeded in seeing him?" said Hunston.
"Yes," she said, quietly.
"And you bade him be of good heart?—you told him that we were making a plan in his behalf—a plan which could not fail of success? You said—"
The woman looked up.
"Nothing!"
"What!"