Her fainting caused a diversion in the crowd, and she was dragged without much delay to the nearest doorstep.
She was not long unconscious, and presently so far recovered as to know that she was being helped to enter a cab.

The cab began to drive off.
Then she saw that some one was sitting opposite her.

"Who is it ?" she asked, trying to command herself, and to see clearly by the light of the street lamps.

At the sound of the voice which answered, she started, and, looking again, at length recognised Waymark.
"Do you feel better ?" he asked.

"Are you able to go on homewards ?" "Quite able," she answered, leaning back again, and speaking with strange calmness.
"What on earth is the meaning of this ?" was Waymark's next inquiry.
"How came you here at this time ?" "Curiosity brought me," Maud answered, with the same unnatural composure.
"Had you been there long ?" "No; I had asked my way to Litany Lane, and all at once found myself in the crowd." "Thank goodness I happened to be by! I had just been looking up a defaulting tenant.