"If you are in earnest, Thames," she replied, with a look of gentle reproach, "you are very foolish; and, if in jest, very cruel. Somewhere she had read that it was the proper thing to do and that men liked to be alone with their tobacco. “By Jove!” he said, “there is something direct about you. The preparations to meet him were immense, roses were planted everywhere, white and drooping with honeyed fragrance. He had not thought to find a lady so ready of humour and willing to give him a hearing. Stanley took the letter and stood with it in his hand thoughtfully for a time. And who knew if the men that Gerald had posted there would follow her to protect her somewhere else? In truth, where were these soldiers? She could not see them, although she assiduously searched the mist-shrouded square from the vantage point of the bay window in the large first floor room which had become her headquarters. In this way he crossed one or two public gardens and a bowling-green,—the neighbourhood of Clerkenwell then abounded in such places of amusement,—passed the noted Ducking Pond, where Black Mary had been frequently immersed; and, striking off to the left across the fields, arrived in a few minutes at his destination. She occupied a small sofa, a little apart, a ruddy-complexioned gentleman some years her senior beside her, and glanced about with an air of considerable unease. ’ ‘A pretty tale. " "And were I in yours," rejoined the woollen-draper, "I should be doubly apprehensive, because he's a professed friend. "I do," replied Thames, in the same tone; "we haven't a moment to lose. Just sit down on that stool again and let’s talk of this in cold blood. But Gerald wouldn’t hear of it.
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