But the street was a busy one, and she was a little afraid of him.

Neither consideration would have checked her in one of her ungovernable moods, but now she was in an abject one.

Her moods seemed to come only when they were harmful to her.

She suffered herself to be put into the railway omnibus, which was on the point of starting from the innyard when they arrived there, and though he touched his hat, asked whether she had any message to give him, and in a tender whisper wished her a safe journey, she would not look at or speak to him.

So they parted, and he returned alone to the chalet, where he was received by the two policemen who subsequently brought him to the college..