Returning to the kitchen, he poured out and drank a cup of tea, put on his boots, overcoat and hat and taking his basket went out of the house.
The rain was still falling and it was very cold and dark.

There was no one else in the street.

Easton shivered as he walked along wondering what time it could be.

He remembered there was a clock over the front of a jeweller's shop a little way down the main road.

When he arrived at this place he found that the clock being so high up he could not see the figures on the face distinctly, because it was still very dark.