The round, at that very moment, debauched upon the terrace and proceeded to summon him with
shouts and curses. He heard them ferreting in the dark corners; the stock of a lance even rattled
along the outer surface of the door behind which he stood; but these gentlemen were in too high a
humour to be long delayed, and soon made off down a corkscrew pathway which had escaped
Denis's observation, and passed out of sight and hearing along the battlements of the town.