They
stood back from the pavement, separated from it by little strips of
garden-ground. This peculiarity of position, added to the breadth of the
roadway interposing between them and the smaller houses opposite,
made it impossible for Magdalen to see the numbers on the doors, or
to observe more of any one who might come to the windows than the bare
general outline of dress and figure. Nevertheless, there she stood,
anxiously fixing her eyes on one house in the row, nearly opposite to
her--the house she had looked for before entering the lodgings; the
house inhabited at that moment by Noel Vanstone and Mrs. Lecount.
After keeping watch at the window in silence for ten minutes or more,
she suddenly looked back into the room, to observe the effect which her
behavior might have produced on her traveling companion.
Not the slightest cause appeared for any apprehension in that quarter.
Mrs. Wragge was seated at the table absorbed in the arrangement of
a series of smart circulars and tempting price-lists, issued by
advertising trades-people, and flung in at the cab-windows as they left
the London terminus. "I've often heard tell of light reading," said Mrs.
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