If she kept her promise the presence of a third person would be an intolerable restraint upon him.

Yet why?
Patty might as well know all, and act as judge between them.

There needed little sagacity to arbitrate in a matter such as this.
To sit at home was impossible.

He walked for the sake of walking, straight on, without object.

Down the long gas-lit perspective of Bradford Street, with its closed, silent workshops, across the miserable little river Rea--canal rather than river, sewer rather than canal--up the steep ascent to St.Martin's and the Bull Ring, and the bronze Nelson, dripping with dirty moisture; between the big buildings of New Street, and so to the centre of the town.