He paused, and peered anxiously into the dim inner corners of the old guard-room.

Was she waiting there for the darkness to come, and hide her from prying eyes?
No: a solitary workman loitered through the stone chamber; but no other living creature stirred in the place.

The captain mounted the steps which led out from the postern and walked on.
He advanced some fifty or sixty yards along the paved footway; the outlying suburbs of York on one side of him, a rope-walk and some patches of kitchen garden occupying a vacant strip of ground on the other.

He advanced with eager eyes and quickened step; for he saw before him the lonely figure of a woman, standing by the parapet of the wall, with her face set toward the westward view.

He approached cautiously, to make sure of her before she turned and observed him.