The city had already begun to revert back to its historic and real masters: sheiks and imams, the white-robed religious clerics.
The White-robed Advocate advanced, more hesitatingly, that Dick presumably should go with him.
But I was in no mood to linger there—I wanted an explanation of that strange light and of those two white-robed figures.
White-robed attendants appeared in answer to our summons, and I was stripped, bathed, and anointed by their deft hands.
“Do not ask her for them,” said Romola, speaking to the white-robed boys in a tone of mild authority.
Spring came and then the budding summer, and again the long line of white-robed girls walked the winding paths of Pinewood Hall.