But the man on the grass occupied most of my attention, and I missed the parting.

An odd fancy took me to watch if he stirred again while I counted a hundred.

He did not, and I shifted my gaze to find Miss Plinlimmon coming towards me unescorted.
Archibald had disappeared.
Her eyes were red, and her voice trembled a little.

"And now," said she, "that's enough of my affairs, please God!" She began to put questions about the Trapps.

And while I answered them I happened to look along the flat stretch of turf to the right, in time to see, at perhaps a hundred yards' distance, a soldier cross it from behind and go hurrying down the slope towards the bull-ring.