The district known by this name is situated in a remote part of London, near the Thames.

It is notoriously infested by the most desperate and degraded set of wretches in the whole metropolitan population, and it is so thickly inhabited that it is hardly ever completely free from epidemic disease.

In this horrible place, and among these dangerous people, Julian is now employing himself from morning to night.

None of his old friends ever see him.

Since he joined the Mission he has not even called on Lady Janet Roy.
"My pledge is redeemed--the facts are before you.