I came up the stairs to Mr. Chiffinch's lodgings, just as himself came out; and he fell back a step when he saw me.
"Why, where do you come from?" he asked.
"They are after me," I said briefly. "But that is not all."
"Why, what else?" said he, staring at me.
"I am come from seeing the martyrdoms," I said.
"For God's sake!—" he cried; and caught me by the arm and drew me in.
"Now have you dined?" he said, when he had me in a chair.
"Not yet."
He looked at me, fingering his lip.
"I suppose you have come to see His Majesty?" he said.