46/47 As they did so, some other door was opened noisily and banged, while footsteps began to drag slowly across the stone floor and up the aisle they had come down. The new-comer subsided into a pew with a clatter on the boards, but the murmured prayers went on unbroken. A street-car banged and clattered up towards the centre of the town, packed with jovial people. Pennell looked towards it half longingly. |