Gustav Klimt The Kiss

Gustav Klimt The Kiss
"At the same instant the sinister cry of the Bete du bon Dieu arrested me in my ascent. It seemed to me to have come from close by me ?only a few yards away. Was the cry a signal? ?Had some accomplice of the man seen me on the ladder! ?Would the cry bring the man to the window?
Gustav Klimt The Kiss
Perhaps! Ah, there he was at the window! I felt his head above me. I heard the sound of his breath! I could not look up towards him; the least movement of my head, and ?I might be lost. Would he see me? ?Would he peer into the darkness? No; he went away. He had seen nothing. I felt, rather than heard, him moving on tip-toe in the room; and I mounted a few steps higher.
Gustav Klimt The Kiss