“So dark I could not see the ground.”
“Thy horse found the way and reached the bridge?”
“No, I turned not in towards it; but passing Bataille’s Inn, I rode down to a waterman’s house close by the river’s bank. There I dismounted, tied my horse and found the waterman. He was tying his wherry at the foot of the landing. With much persuasion, I induced him to row me across and, reaching the stone steps somewhere near the Swan, I came here with all haste.”
“And when were you last at your quarters in Coward Lane?”
“Just before starting for Deptford.”
“Whatever is there must be left.”
“Nay,” exclaimed Marlowe, “I have much unfinished work there.”
“Doth not Nash lodge in the same tenement?”
“Yes, in the room adjoining.”
“Doth he know of these writings?”