"You have followed me, you see, after all!" "I admit it," he replied, "and without a particle of shame.

My dear lady, I was not going to lose sight of you to-night!" "And why not ?" "Because I foresaw what might happen, and may happen still! Nay, madam, it will, if you continue to let your pride sit upon your common sense.
Do you hear them now?
That means the police, and when they're dispersed they'll come this way to King's Road.

Any moment they may be upon us.
And there's a hansom dropped from heaven!" He raised his umbrella, the bell tinkled, the two red eyes dilated and widened in the night, then with a clatter the horse was pulled up beside the curb, and Steel spread his hand before the muddy wheel.
"Be sensible," he whispered, "and jump in! In a hansom you can see where you are going; in a hansom you can speak to the driver or attract the attention of any decent person on the sidewalk.

Ah! you will trust me so far at last--I thank you from my heart!" "Where to, sir ?" asked the cabman through the roof.
And Rachel listened with languid curiosity; but that was all.

She had put herself in this man's hands; resistance was at an end, and a reckless indifference to her fate the new attitude of a soul as utterly overtaxed and exhausted as its tired tenement of clay.
"Brook Street," said Steel, after a moment's pause--"and double-quick for a double fare.