But when he had time to reflect, he jumped miserably back and forward.

So when Grizel was ready to start, he did not know in the least what he meant to do.
She was to pass by the Cuttle Well, on her way to Tilliedrum, where she would get the London train, he had been told coldly, and he could be there at the time--if he liked.

The time was seven o'clock in the evening on a week-day, when the lovers are not in the Den, and Tommy arrived first.

When he stole through the small field that separates Monypenny from the Den, his decision was--but on reaching the Cuttle Well, its nearness to the uncanny Lair chilled his courage, and now he had only come to bid her good-by.

She was very late, and it suddenly struck him that she had already set off.