There was a look of tragic resolution on her small face--oh, she was meeting life in earnest, she reflected--and even to the coarse mind and the dull imagination of the man beside her, she assumed gradually the appearance of some ethereal messenger.

At the moment she was thinking of Stephen, but this he did not suspect.

He saw only that there was something almost unearthly in her expression; and he felt the kind of awe that came over him on Sunday when he entered a church.

He wouldn't hurt the girl, he told himself, with a twinge, for a pocketful of money.
They had turned into Leigh Street, and had walked some distance in silence, when Patty asked suddenly without looking round, "Then she doesn't know I am coming ?" "I told her I'd bring you whenever I could; but she ain't looking for you this evening.

There, that's the house--the one in the middle, with that wooden swing and all those kids in the yard." He pointed to what had once been a fine old house of stuccoed brick, with a square front porch and green shutters which were sagging on loosened hinges.