"Where to?" asked the man through the roof, after she had got in.
"Straight home as fast as you can," was her strange answer.
The man looked down upon her. "Where's that?" he asked good-humouredly.
"I beg your pardon," she exclaimed, vainly attempting to control her breath. She gave him the address, and off they went.
At the end of the journey she paid him profusely, and he thanked her with as profuse a civility. She let herself in with her key, went up at once to her room, and threw herself across her bed. Her sobs broke out afresh. "Darling," she called; "I want you back again to be mine, and mine only."
XXV
Lady Betty did not let go the hand which she had clutched in terror, and her companion responded with a touch of caressing reassurance.
"My heart is still beating," she said, as they turned off the river bank into Tite Street. "Suppose we had crushed that poor creature. What a terrible memory it would have left with us!"