"Ah!"
Like a flash of light through the darkness, my own peril returned to her.
"You! What are you going to do?" she exclaimed.
"I am going about my daily duty just as though nothing had happened," I replied.
"Those men out there are waiting to kill you. Come! Let us see if they are there still."
We went to the window together and peered out. The karetta was still waiting.
"Tell me your true name again," she demanded, rather irrelevantly I thought, as we drew back. "You told me, but I have forgotten. To me you are Dubravnik; but I suppose I must learn the other one."
"You must learn how to answer to it, also, for it is to be yours as well as mine." Then I mentioned it, and she repeated it after me several times, under her breath.
"Do you know of any way, no matter how, to escape those men who are waiting outside?" she asked.
"Yes," I replied, "I know of one."