John turned toward the short
staircase as she alit upon the first creaky step. His face fell. He smothered it down with such a good will that the reaction set his heart to
pounding. “Perhaps your engagements are made for you. Meanwhile, the clergyman, bare-headed and in his surplice, advanced to meet
them. It begins with that queer piccolo solo. They
mean something. Sheila had
dropped glaring hints that she knew, which Chuck tacitly
acknowledged with a lowered gaze. ‘How could I know that it is you?’ She peered at him in the darkness. Jack did not advance to meet her. They tried to read
illustrated papers in an unconcerned manner and with forced attention, lest they
should catch the leaping exultation in each other’s eyes. Casting a hasty glance at the old and ruinous prison belonging
to the liberty of the Bishop of Winchester (whose palace formerly adjoined the
river), called the Clink, which gave its name to the street, along which he
walked: and noticing, with some uneasiness, the melancholy manner in which
the wind whistled through its barred casements, the carpenter followed his
companion down an opening to the right, and presently arrived at the water-side. “I feel justified then,” he said, “in annexing his chair. By the time he had reached the summit of this hill, he had lost all trace of them;
and the ardour of the chase having in some measure subsided, he began to
reproach himself for his folly, in having wandered—as he conceived—so far out
of his course.
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