She in the meantime was not going straight to meet her sister; after walking slowly for a little distance, she turned in a direction the opposite of that she ought to have taken.

Then she stopped to look into a shop-window.
A clock showed her that by this time Lydia would be at home.

Yet still she walked away from her own street.

She said to herself that five-and-twenty minutes must pass before Gilbert would leave the house to return to his work.

The way in which she now was would bring her by a long compass into Kennington Road.