"Yes. I went into the wrong room. A man was asleep there. I went to him and touched him, and whispered in his ear your name."
"Dolores!"
"Hush! be calm, señor. Remember your promise."
"Who was the man?"
"I could not see him. He pursued me, but I escaped."
"But you!—how did you get here?"
"By a secret passage, as I said."
"In what part of the castle are you?"
"Oh, in the story above."
"Do they treat you well?" asked Ashby, in a tone of tender solicitude.