After Dark The French Governess's Story of Sister Rose Part Second Chapter II

In which the sombre shadow of Terror falls heavily upon the quiet evening discourse betwixt two siblings, whose cautious whispers and guarded glances hint at perilous secrets confined within these walls. Their solemn reverie is abruptly shattered by the arrival of a wrathful husband and the swift, inexorable hand of the Republic’s agents, whose orders sweep them into the dark maw of imprisonment, as the fervent hymn of revolution rings aloft outside.