"Nothing, now," said Johanna. "But I cannot keep up longer than when I am in that shop. As soon as I am fairly out of the presence of that dreadful man, I feel ready to faint."
"Be of good cheer," said a deep-toned voice.
She looked up, and saw Sir Richard Blunt.
"You here, sir?"
"Yes, Johanna. I have been now for some time watching Todd's shop from our friend's first-floor window. I saw you dart across the road, and for the moment feared something had gone wrong. Did Todd get two letters?"
"He did."
"They will, I hope, keep him quiet until another night. Dare you go back again, Johanna, to that place?"
"Yes, if it be necessary; but he has told me to sleep out, and the gust of pleasure I felt at the permission, almost, I fear, betrayed me."
"He came to the door and looked furiously after you, but he did not see which way you had come. You were over here like a flash of light."
"He would have had me back again, then?—What could that be for?"