Here, under the low colonnade, it was very dark, and the passengers going to and fro were not many.

At each angle of the square where the neighbouring streets entered it, in the open space, there hung a dull, dim oil-lamp; but other light there was none.

Nina, however, did not mind the darkness while Anton Trendellsohn was with her.

Even when walking close under the buttresses of St Nicholas--of St Nicholas, who could not but have been offended-- close under the very niche in which stood the statue of the saint--she had no uncomfortable qualms.

When Anton was with her she did not much regard the saints.