The three men brought the carriage up quietly, and took out of it a little man, stout, short, elderly, and commonly dressed in clothes of a dark color, who ascended the ladder very carefully, looked suspiciously in at the window of the pavilion, came down as quietly as he had gone up, and whispered, ’It is she!’
Efectivamente, después de haber cerrado la puerta del seto tras ellos hice ademán de volver a la casa; pero salí en seguida por la puerta de atrás y deslizándome en la sombra llegué hasta esa mata de saúco, desde cuyo centro podía ver todo sin ser visto.