Then I escaped--then I ran home--and that's all.

When the time drew on this evening for the appointment--which, of course, I never intended to keep, I felt uneasy, lest when he found I meant to disappoint him he would come on to the house; and that's why I could not sleep.

But you are so silent!' 'I have had a long journey.' 'Then let us get into the house.

Why did you come alone and unattended like this ?' 'It was my humour.' After a moment's silence, during which they moved on, she said, 'I have thought of something which I hardly like to suggest to you.

He said that if I failed to come to-night he would wait again to-morrow night.