At the top of the street she crossed towards him; he let her pass by and followed closely.

She entered the booking-office of Gower Street station; he drew as near as possible and heard her ask for a ticket-- "Healtheries; third return." The slang term for the Health Exhibition at Kensington was familiar to him from the English papers he had seen in Paris.

As soon as Eve had passed on he obtained a like ticket and hastened down the steps in pursuit.

A minute or two and he was sitting face to face with her in the railway carriage.
He could now observe her at his leisure and compare her features with those represented in the photograph.

Mrs.Brewer had said truly that the portrait did not do her justice; he saw the resemblance, yet what a difference between the face he had brooded over at Dudley and that which lived before him! A difference not to be accounted for by mere lapse of time.