She was not alone; a stout man got down after her.
"It's that thief of a Steiner," said Caroline.

"How is it they haven't sent him back to Cologne yet?
I want to see how he looks when he comes in." They turned round, but when after the lapse of ten minutes Maria Blond appeared, she was alone.

She had twice mistaken the staircase.

And when Lucy, in some astonishment, questioned her: "What, he ?" she said.

"My dear, don't you go fancying that he'll come upstairs! It's a great wonder he's escorted me as far as the door.