The sound of the shutting of the hall door fell on his ear.

He rushed out as if in pursuit.
Dorian Gray hurried along the quay through the drizzling rain.

His meeting with Adrian Singleton had strangely moved him, and he wondered if the ruin of that young life was really to be laid at his door, as Basil Hallward had said to him with such infamy of insult.

He bit his lip, and for a few seconds his eyes grew sad.

Yet, after all, what did it matter to him?
One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders.