She had no companion, and wanted none.

Mrs.Baggs, who had never forgiven the rebuke administered to her at the starting-point of our journey, left us at the close of it.

Her leave-taking was dignified and pathetic.

She kindly informed Alicia that she wished her well, though she could not conscientiously look upon her as a lawful married woman; and she begged me (in case I got off), the next time I met with a respectable person who was kind to me, to profit by remembering my past errors, and to treat my next benefactress with more confidence than I had treated her.
My first business in the prison was to write to Mr.Batterbury.
I had a magnificent ease to present to him, this time.

Although I believed myself, and had succeeded in persuading Alicia, that I was sure of being recommended to mercy, it was not the less the fact that I was charged with an offense still punishable by death, in the then barbarous state of the law.