When it was nearly four o'clock, he again went forth, took a carriage, and bade the man drive quickly.
This time he was successful.

A servant conducted him by many stairs and passages to Mrs.Lessingham's sitting-room.

He entered, and found himself alone with Cecily.
"Mrs.Lessingham will certainly be back very soon," she said, in shaking hands with him.

"They told me you had called before, and I thought you would like better to wait a few minutes than to be disappointed again." "I think of going to Amalfi to-morrow morning, perhaps for a long time," remarked the visitor.

"I wished to say good bye." The accumulated impatience and nervousness of the whole morning disturbed his pulses and put a weight upon his tongue; he spoke with awkward indecision, held himself awkwardly.