Meantime his fare, if we may call him such, seeing he was to pay nothing, whom the relief of being carried had made less and less inclined to carry himself, had been turning over things in his mind, and, as they passed the Mint, called to Diamond, who stopped the horse, got down and went to the window.
"If you didn't mind taking me to Chiswick, I should be able to pay you when we got there.

It's a long way, but you shall have the whole fare from the Docks--and something over." "Very well, sir" said Diamond.

"I shall be most happy." He was just clambering up again, when the gentleman put his head out of the window and said-- "It's The Wilderness--Mr.Coleman's place; but I'll direct you when we come into the neighbourhood." It flashed upon Diamond who he was.

But he got upon his box to arrange his thoughts before making any reply.
The gentleman was Mr.Evans, to whom Miss Coleman was to have been married, and Diamond had seen him several times with her in the garden.
I have said that he had not behaved very well to Miss Coleman.

He had put off their marriage more than once in a cowardly fashion, merely because he was ashamed to marry upon a small income, and live in a humble way.