Paul had more or less got into connection with the Socialist, Suffragette, Unitarian people in Nottingham, owing to his acquaintance with Clara.

One day a friend of his and of Clara's, in Bestwood, asked him to take a message to Mrs.Dawes.He went in the evening across Sneinton Market to Bluebell Hill.

He found the house in a mean little street paved with granite cobbles and having causeways of dark blue, grooved bricks.

The front door went up a step from off this rough pavement, where the feet of the passersby rasped and clattered.
The brown paint on the door was so old that the naked wood showed between the rents.

He stood on the street below and knocked.