It won't be a surprise.

He thinks I'm a fine lady and it's the fashion for fine ladies to go to Hampstead at this time of the year.

It might make him jealous though," she added thoughtfully, "if he knows of the lovemaking by moonlight Hannah talked about." She could decide upon nothing, and rather than loiter in Holborn while trying to solve the problem she entered Great Turnstile passage and presently was in the quietude of Lincoln's Inn Fields.

At night she would not have ventured to cross this big open space haunted as it was after dark by footpads and pickpockets, but at that early hour of the morning there was nothing to fear.

Only a few people were about and in the enclosure railed off from the roadway by posts was a horse being broken in.