I'll let them cut my ears into strips rather than leave thishiding-place!

KIKI-THE-DEMURE, (_invisible_)

I can't help hearing, and it's as if I saw everything that's going on.She hastwelves to close the windows. Someone is running on the stairs. Aie!Another awful flame--and everything is falling in! Silence now.... Iwonder are they all dead? I'll look through the fringes of the chair,though it's risking my life to do so. Ah, hailstones making holes inthe leaves! Here comes the rain, in silvery drops, wide apart, and soheavy that the gravel wrinkles up when they fall.

SHE, (_heart-broken_)