Chapter 40

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​​​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌​‌​‌​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​​​​‌‌⁠It was fortunate for me that I had to take precautions to ensure (so far as I could) the safety of my dreaded visitor; for, this thought pressing on me when I awoke, held other thoughts in a confused concourse at a distance.

The impossibility of keeping him concealed in the chambers was self-evident. It could not be done, and the attempt to do it would inevitably engender suspicion. True, I had no