He had waited for about a quarter of an hour, when his eye distinguished a well-known figure quickly approaching.

He hurried forward, and Eve stopped before he had quite come up to her.
"Where have you been to-night ?" were his first words, sounding more roughly than he in tended.
"I wanted to see you, I passed your lodgings and saw there was no light in the windows, else I should have asked for you." She spoke in so strange a voice, with such show of agitation, that Hilliard stood gazing at her till she again broke silence, "Have you been waiting here for me ?" "Yes.

Patty told me you weren't back." "Why did you come ?" "Why do I ever come to meet you ?" "We can't talk here," said Eve, turning away.

"Come into a quieter place." They walked in silence to the foot of High Street, and there turned aside into the shadowed solitude of Mornington Crescent.

Eve checked her steps and said abruptly-- "I want to ask you for something." "What is it ?" "Now that it comes to saying it, I--I'm afraid.