Then there flashed out upon the dark the door of a public-house to the right, the last in the village road.

A man came out stumbling and reeling; the light within streamed out an instant on the road and the common; then the pursuing rain and darkness fell upon him.
She was drawing back when, with sudden horror, she perceived something else close beside her, pressing against the window.

A woman's face!--the powerful black and white of it--the strong aquiline features--the mad keenness of the look were all plain to her.

The eyes looked in hungrily at the prostrate form on the settle--at the sleeping child.

Another figure appeared out of the dark, running up the path.