The flowers upon the mantel-shelf were withered and drooping--_she_ had gathered them.

All these circumstances,--slight in themselves, but powerful in their effect,--touched the heart of the widowed carpenter, and added to his depression.
Supper was over.

It had been discussed in silence.

The cloth was removed, and Wood, drawing the table as near the window as possible--for it was getting dusk--put on his spectacles, and opened that sacred volume from which the best consolation in affliction is derived, and left the lovers--for such they may now be fairly termed--to their own conversation.

Having already expressed our determination not to betray any confidences of this sort, which, however interesting to the parties concerned, could not possibly be so to others, we shall omit also the "love passages," and proceeding to such topics as may have general interest, take up the discourse at the point when Thames Darrell expressed his determination of starting for Manchester, as soon as Jack Sheppard's examination had taken place.
"I am surprised we have received no summons for attendance to-day," he remarked; "perhaps the other robber may be secured." "Or Jack have escaped," remarked Winny.
"I don't think that's likely.