"She turned giddy as she was walkin' past, an' yer tried to pull 'er round with a drop of brandy." He repeated the words like a boy reciting a lesson, feeling anxiously with his thumb as he spoke, wondering if the coin Jonah had pushed into his hand was a florin or a half-dollar.
Cassidy and Joe, one on each side, helped Ada into the cab.

Her feet scraped helplessly over the flagged pavement her head lolled on her shoulder, and the baleful white gleam of the huge electric lamps fell like limelight on her face contracted in an atrocious leer.
The "Silver Shoe" was closed and in darkness, and Jonah drew a breath of relief.

The neighbours were at their tea, and he could get his shameful burden in unseen.

Prendergast, the cabman, helped him to drag Ada across the shop to the foot of the stairs, where with an oath he threw her across his shoulder, and ran up the winding staircase as if he were carrying a bag of chaff.
Suddenly the door on the landing opened, throwing a flood of light on their faces, and Jonah was astonished to see Miss Grimes, trim and neat, looking in alarm from him to the cabman and his burden.

As Prendergast dropped Ada on the couch, she took a step forward.
"What has happened?
Is she hurt ?" she asked, bending over Ada; but the next moment she turned away.
This unconscious movement of disgust maddened Jonah.