He perfectly understood the fact, and made no special objection to following the bailiff.

One case was at any rate off his mind; he could not now, be his will to do so ever so good, keep his appointment with Norah Geraghty.

Perhaps it was quite as well for him to be arrested just at this moment, as be left at liberty.

It must have come sooner or later.

So he walked on with the bailiff not without some feeling of consolation.
The man had suggested to him a cab; but Charley had told him, without the slightest _mauvaise honte_, that he had not about him the means of paying for a cab.