It was at this moment that Raoul passed in front of the funereal
masquerader, who had just happened to turn in his direction.
And he nearly exclaimed:
"The death's head of Perros-Guirec!"
He had recognized him!...He wanted to dart forward, forgetting Christine;
but the black domino, who also seemed a prey to some strange excitement,
caught him by the arm and dragged him from the crush-room,
far from the mad crowd through which Red Death was stalking. ...
The black domino kept on turning back and, apparently, on two
occasions saw something that startled her, for she hurried
her pace and Raoul's as though they were being pursued.
They went up two floors. Here, the stairs and corridors
were almost deserted. The black domino opened the door of a
private box and beckoned to the white domino to follow her.
Then Christine, whom he recognized by the sound of her voice,
closed the door behind them and warned him, in a whisper,
to remain at the back of the box and on no account to show himself.
Raoul took off his mask. Christine kept hers on. And, when Raoul
was about to ask her to remove it, he was surprised to see her put
her ear to the partition and listen eagerly for a sound outside.
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