Als er die Freitreppe der Bank hinunterging, beobachtete er sorgfältig alle Passanten, aber selbst in der weiteren Umgebung war kein Mädchen zu sehen, das auf jemanden gewartet hätte.
As he went down the main stairway at the front of the bank, he looked carefully round at everyone who was passing, but there was no girl to be seen who might have been waiting for somebody, not even within some distance from the bank.