[Fenton’s Quest by M. E. Braddon]@TWC D-Link bookFenton’s Quest CHAPTER XV 24/27
There's a church at Golder's-green almost as near, and they may have been there." "Will you tell me what they were like ?" Gilbert asked eagerly. His heart was beating loud and fast, making a painful tumult in his breast.
He felt assured that he was on the track of the people whom the innkeeper had described to him; the people who were, in all probability, Mr.and Mrs.Holbrook. "The lady is very pretty and very young--quite a girl.
The gentleman older, dark, and not handsome." "Yes.
Has the lady gray eyes, and dark-brown hair, and a very bright expressive face ?" "Yes, sir." "Pray try to remember the name of the gentleman to whom the Grange belongs.
It is of great importance to me to know that." "I'll ask my father, sir," the girl answered good-naturedly; "he's pretty sure to know." She went across the shop to the old man who was weighing sugar, and bawled her question into his ear.
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