"I will do anything you require, except deliver you to this hateful apprentice.

If it is your pleasure, I repeat, I will take you back to your father." "Promise me this, my lord, and I shall be quite easy," cried Amabel, joyfully.
"I do promise it," he returned.

"But oh! why not stay with me, and complete the good work you have begun ?" Amabel averted her head, and Rochester sighing deeply, quitted the room.
An attendant shortly afterwards came to inform her that the earl intended to start for London without delay, and begged her to prepare for the journey.

In an hour's time, a carriage drove to the door, and Rochester having placed her and Prudence in it, mounted his horse, and set forth.

Late on the second day they arrived in London, and passing through the silent and deserted streets, the aspect of which struck terror into all the party, shaped their course towards the city.
Presently they reached Ludgate, but instead of proceeding to Wood-street, the carriage turned off on the right, and traversing Thames-street, crossed London Bridge.