But--I'm not going to be left in the dark.

Put on your hat, then." Bryce, ever since his coming to Wrychester, had occupied rooms in an old house in Friary Lane, at the back of the Close.

He was comfortably lodged.

Downstairs he had a double sitting-room, extending from the front to the back of the house; his front window looked out on one garden, his back window on another.

He had just finished lunch in the front part of his room, and was looking out of his window, wondering what to do with himself that afternoon, when he saw Ransford and Mary Bewery approaching.