The Pierced Heart: a Novel
“Though where here may be I do not know. We came by night, with the blinds pulled down, and I saw only a courtyard and the man who came forward to take down the luggage, though by the noise nearby of people and carriages I guessed we were not far from some much larger street. We were brought up here, to this door, and this set of rooms that I could see at once have not been lived in for many months, so filthy they are with dust and so empty of any sign of inhabitance. He stood there, watching, a...s my little trunk was brought to me, then nodded without speaking and locked the door behind him. Where he lodges, I do not know, but it cannot be far, for he brings me my meals, but stays only to hand me the tray, and otherwise I am absolutely solitary, kept like a prisoner, in the dark. For he has bolted all the shutters and told me they will remain so. It is for my own good, he says, and the success of my treatment depends upon it, though why the darkness is so necessary, or in what my treatment will consist, he does not say.MoreLess
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