His scheming in Sally's interest had turned out to his and to her satisfaction, but not so that on behalf of Dorrimore.

The captain had not reckoned upon Lavinia taking flight before he and his employer arrived on the scene.
The plot of which she was the objective was common enough in those days of free and easy lovemaking.

Merely an abduction.

Rofflash had an intimate knowledge of Whitefriars, not then, perhaps, so lawless a place as in the times of the Stuarts, but sufficiently lawless for his purpose.

Its ancient privileges which made it a sanctuary for all that was vile and criminal had not been entirely swept away.