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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: safely out of the way. As clearly, it was to my interest to be
in the way. Giving place to the temptation, I rose quietly, and,
stooping below the level of the windows, slipped round the east
end of the house, passing between it and the great yew hedge.
Here I found all still and no one stirring; so, keeping a wary
eye about me, I went on round the house--reversing the route
which Madame had taken the night before--until I gained the rear
of the stables. Here I had scarcely paused a second to scan the
ground before two persons came out of the stable-court. They
were Madame and the porter.
They stood a brief while outside and looked up and down. Then
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