Redmain's
room?"
"I can not tell. I do not think it. That has no window in this
direction, so far as I know. But I could not be certain."
"Think how the stairs turn as you go up, and how the passages go
to the room. Think in what direction you look every corner you
turn. Then you will know better whether or not it might be."
Mary was silent, and thought. In her mind she followed every turn
she had to take from the moment she entered the house till she
got to the door of Mr. Redmain's room, and then thought how the
windows lay when she entered it. Her conclusion was that one side
of the room must be against the hall, but she could remember no
window in it.
"But," she added, "I never was in that room when I was here
before, and, the twice I have now been in it, I was too much
occupied to take much notice of things about me. Two windows, I
know, look down into a quiet little corner of the courtyard,
where there is an old pump covered with ivy. I remember no
other."
"Is there any way of getting on to the top of that wall from this
tower?" asked Joseph.
"Certainly there is. People often walk round the top of those
walls. They are more than thick enough for that."
"Are you able to do it?"
"Yes, quite. I have been round them more than once. But I don't
like the idea of looking in at a window."
"No more do I, miss; but you must remember, if it is his room, it
will only be your eyes going where the whole of you has a right
to be; and, if it should not be that room, they have driven you
to it: such a necessity will justify it.
Pages:
602
603
604
605
606
607
608
609
610
611
612
613
614
615
616
617
618
619
620
621
622
623
624
625
626