Two fellows are sitting shuddering under a doorway; to one of them Tom Billings flung a sixpence.

He little knew that the names of those two young men were--Samuel Johnson and Richard Savage.) ANOTHER LAST CHAPTER.
Mr.Hayes did not join the family the next day; and it appears that the previous night's reconciliation was not very durable; for when Mrs.
Springatt asked Wood for Hayes, Mr.Wood stated that Hayes had gone away without saying whither he was bound, or how long he might be absent.
He only said, in rather a sulky tone, that he should probably pass the night at a friend's house.

"For my part, I know of no friend he hath," added Mr.Wood; "and pray Heaven that he may not think of deserting his poor wife, whom he hath beaten and ill-used so already!" In this prayer Mrs.Springatt joined; and so these two worthy people parted.
What business Billings was about cannot be said; but he was this night bound towards Marylebone Fields, as he was the night before for the Strand and Westminster; and, although the night was very stormy and rainy, as the previous evening had been fine, old Wood good-naturedly resolved upon accompanying him; and forth they sallied together.
Mrs.Catherine, too, had HER business, as we have seen; but this was of a very delicate nature.

At nine o'clock, she had an appointment with the Count; and faithfully, by that hour, had found her way to Saint Margaret's churchyard, near Westminster Abbey, where she awaited Monsieur de Galgenstein.
The spot was convenient, being very lonely, and at the same time close to the Count's lodgings at Whitehall.

His Excellency came, but somewhat after the hour; for, to say the truth, being a freethinker, he had the most firm belief in ghosts and demons, and did not care to pace a churchyard alone.