 They take up their abode in a lonely retreat.They remain for some time in this retreat, communicating to each other the long histories of their suffering.Cythna, according to her own wild tale, was carried away from Laon at the moment when he killed three of the captors that surrounded her, had been conveyed to the tyrant's palace, and had suffered all the insults, and almost all the injuries, to which its inmates were exposed.