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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: the skull-headed porter had the air of an ogre. Only the voice
which greeted me dispelled the illusion. I turned trembling
towards the quarter whence it came, and, shading my eyes, made
out a woman's form standing in a doorway under the gallery. A
second figure, which I took to be that of the servant I had seen
at the inn, loomed uncertainly beside her.
I bowed in silence. My teeth were chattering. I was faint
without feigning, and felt a kind of terror, hard to explain, at
the sound of this woman's voice.
'One of our people has told me about you, she continued, speaking
out of the darkness. 'I am sorry that this has happened to you
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