Wayfarers were questioned as a matter of form, but in no case did Wilding hear of any one being detained upon suspicion.

This was calculated to raise his drooping hopes, pointing as it did to the general favouring of Monmouth that was toward.

He grew less despondent on the score of the Duke's possible ultimate success, and he came to hope that the efforts he went to exert would not be fruitless.
But rude were the disappointments that awaited him in town.

London, like the rest of the country, was not ready.

There were not wanting men who favoured Monmouth; but no rising had been organized, and the Duke's partisans were not disposed to rashness.
Wilding lodged at Covent Garden, in a house recommended to him by Colonel Danvers, and there--an outlaw himself--he threw himself with a will into his task.