I left the station at length, and tended forward.

You were probably at rest.

How should I communicate without alarming you, the intelligence of my arrival?
An immediate interview was to be procured.
I could not bear to think that a minute should be lost by remissness or hesitation.

Should I knock at the door?
or should I stand under your chamber windows, which I perceived to be open, and awaken you by my calls?
"These reflections employed me, as I passed opposite to the summer-house.

I had scarcely gone by, when my ear caught a sound unusual at this time and place.