She still had her letter of credit. "Don't you hear those shouts? Yon fellow's clamour has brought the whole horde of jail-birds and cut-throats that infest this place about our ears. "Were it not for that, he would indeed be a blessing and a comfort to me. She was certain he would hear, sleeping in the nearby castle. When her shock and the headache subsided, and she remembered that she had been reading the letter when Gosse had accosted her, she looked for it in vain. ‘But he must have—’ ‘Nicholas Charvill never did anything he must do,’ Mrs Sindlesham said evenly. They hunted up shady nooks and went to sleep; but promptly at four they would be at the office, ready for barter. Over an old crazy bedstead was thrown a squalid, patchwork counterpane; and upon the counterpane lay a black hood and scarf, a pair of bodice of the cumbrous form in vogue at the beginning of the last century, and some other articles of female attire. There was already a score or more of people there, some standing up and talking together, others seated in chairs ranged along the wall. ‘Go and fetch her home,’ he said; ‘it isn’t what we thought! It’s just a practical joke of hers. I wonder. Perhaps there were experiences she would never confide to any man. In the twilight he had ceased to be a person one could tackle and shame; he had become something more general, a something that crawled and sneaked toward her and would not let her alone.
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