Accordingly, he departed, and finding Thirlby waiting for him at the south door, they went forth together.
"I am almost afraid of leaving the poor fellow," said Leonard, hesitating as he was about to descends the steps.

"Judith Malmayns is so cunning and unscrupulous, that she may find some means of doing him an injury." "Have no fear," replied Thirlby; "she has promised me not to molest him further." "You appear to have a strange influence over her, then," observed Leonard.

"May I ask how you have attained it ?" "No matter," replied the other.

"It must suffice that I am willing to exercise it in your behalf." "And you are not disposed to tell me the nature of the interest you feel in Nizza Macascree ?" pursued Leonard.
"Not as yet," replied Thirlby, with a look and tone calculated to put a stop to further inquiries.
Passing through Saint Austin's Gate, they approached Watling-street, at the corner of which stood the house where Doctor Hodges had taken up his temporary abode, that he might visit the sick in the cathedral with greater convenience, and be more readily summoned whenever his attendance might be required.

Thirlby's knock at the door was answered, to Leonard's great satisfaction, by the old porter, who was equally delighted to see him.
It did not escape Leonard that the porter treated the stranger with great respect, and he inferred from this that he was a person of some consideration, as indeed his deportment bespoke him.