"HE WAS STANDING ON THE PAVEMENT LOOKING A SAD, SOLITARY FIGURE."
It was very late. The shop had long been closed. Jack was safely in bed. Only Nanna and Janie knew of Ralph's arrival.
CHAPTER XXVII
RALPH STARTS ON ANOTHER JOURNEY
As soon as their lodger had been removed, Mrs. Coates told her husband what he had said about Mrs. Waring. "And to think," she exclaimed, "that he should talk like that about his very own wife! I didn't tell you before 'cause I knew it 'ud rile you so."
"I should think so," Jim cried out, "the good-for-nothing fellow. I should have been tempted to have picked him up and carried him straight off to the workhouse whether he wanted to go or whether he didn't."
"Do you suppose Mrs. Waring knows how he's talked about her?"
"No; shouldn't think so."