So, about one o'clock, we both crept out by a back way, and ran into Edgware Road.
There we said good-bye, and she went one way, and I another.
"All that night I walked about, for fear of being noticed loitering by a policeman.

When it was morning, I had come round to Hyde Park, and, though it was terribly cold--just in March--I went to sleep on a seat.
I woke about ten o'clock, and walked off into the town, seeking a poor part, where I thought it more likely I might find something to do.

Of course I asked first of all at eating-houses, but no one wanted me.

It was nearly dark, and I hadn't tasted anything.

Then I begged of one or two people--I forgot everything but my hunger--and they gave me a few coppers.