It looked as if the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate very prompt and energetic measures on my part.

At the church door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and she to her own house.

'I shall drive out in the park at five as usual,' she said as she left him.

I heard no more.

They drove away in different directions, and I went off to make my own arrangements." "Which are ?" "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the bell.