But she did her duty by her companion almost unconsciously.
"Mary Datchet does that sort of work very well....

She's responsible for it, I suppose ?" "Yes.

The others don't help at all....

Has she made a convert of you ?" "Oh no.

That is, I'm a convert already." "But she hasn't persuaded you to work for them ?" "Oh dear no--that wouldn't do at all." So they walked on down the Tottenham Court Road, parting and coming together again, and Ralph felt much as though he were addressing the summit of a poplar in a high gale of wind.
"Suppose we get on to that omnibus ?" he suggested.
Katharine acquiesced, and they climbed up, and found themselves alone on top of it.
"But which way are you going ?" Katharine asked, waking a little from the trance into which movement among moving things had thrown her.
"I'm going to the Temple," Ralph replied, inventing a destination on the spur of the moment.