'I don't think it can be as much as that, dear.' He turned to look at the clock, which was behind him.
'Oh, Dick, Dick! Make haste, I beg of you; you don't know what I'm suffering. Supposing my husband was to come in now and find us here?'
'He can't know that we're here; the station is the first place he'd go to; there's no use hanging about there longer than we can help.'
'Oh dear, I'd give ten years of my life if we were once in the train.'
'There's no use exciting yourself like that, dear; I'll see that you don't meet anyone.'
'How will you manage that?'
'I'll tell you in the cab. I think on the whole we'd better start now. Luckily, we haven't much luggage to delay us. Waiter, bring the bill and call me a cab.'
'And how will you save me from meeting him if he's there before us?' she said to Dick as they drove away.
'I'll leave you in the cab, and cut down and see if he's there.'
'He might come and find me when you were gone, and that would be worse than anything. He might kill me, and I should have no one to save me.'