"He'll come."
"Here?" she asked quickly.
"Yes."
Victoria got up and made for the entrance.
"Come along, we'd better go out again."
"There's no hurry," said Johannes, who had turned pale himself. "He won't come before tonight. At the hour of midnight."
Victoria felt reassured and was going to sit down again. But Johannes didn't find it easy to lay the uncanny feeling he had himself called up, the cave was getting too dangerous for him and he said:
"If you really want to go out again I have a stone out there with your name on it. I'll show it you."
They crept out of the cave and found the stone. Victoria was proud of it and happy. Johannes was touched, he could have cried, and he said:
"When you look at it you must think of me sometimes when I am gone. Give me a kind thought."