Laid across one extended arm, looking like dirty towels across a rail, he had the horrid-looking snakes.

He did not seem to see Adam.

No one was to be seen at Mercy except a few workmen in the farmyard, so, after waiting on the chance of seeing Mimi, Adam began to go slowly home.
Once more he was passed on the way.

This time it was by Lady Arabella, walking hurriedly and so furiously angry that she did not recognise him, even to the extent of acknowledging his bow.
When Adam got back to Lesser Hill, he went to the coach-house where the box with the mongoose was kept, and took it with him, intending to finish at the Mound of Stone what he had begun the previous morning with regard to the extermination.

He found that the snakes were even more easily attacked than on the previous day; no less than six were killed in the first half-hour.