Nor did I pause till I had taken sanctuary in the oratory, now empty. Listening there with beating pulses, and an unaccountable, undefined apprehension, I heard him pass through all the schoolrooms, clashing the doors impatiently as he went; I heard him invade the refectory which the lecture pieuse was now holding under hallowed constraint; I heard him pronounce these words⁠—“ Où est Mademoiselle Lucie? ” 207