If the person were Sarah he might on the spot therefore be served to his taste.

He might lead her by a move or two up to the remedy for his vain tension; as to which, should he get nothing else from it, he would at least have the relief of pulling down the roof on their heads.

There was fortunately no one at hand to observe--in respect to his valour--that even on this completed reasoning he still hung fire.

He had been waiting for Mrs.
Pocock and the sound of the oracle; but he had to gird himself afresh--which he did in the embrasure of the window, neither advancing nor retreating--before provoking the revelation.

It was apparently for Sarah to come more into view; he was in that case there at her service.
She did however, as meanwhile happened, come more into view; only she luckily came at the last minute as a contradiction of Sarah.