"He's at the nearest vaults, I'll be bound," said the first speaker. "Your money would have gone there too, if you'd been such a fool as to lend it."
"Catch me! I knew better what his London meant. Why, he has never paid me off that five shillings"--and so they went on.
And now all Margaret's anxiety was for the train to come. She hid herself once more in the ladies' waiting-room, and fancied every noise was Leonards' step--every loud and boisterous voice was his. But no one came near her until the train drew up; when she was civilly helped into a carriage by a porter, into whose face she durst not look till they were in motion, and then she saw that it was not Leonards'.
'He's at the nearest inn, I'll be bound,' said the first speaker. 'Your money would have gone there too, if you'd been such a fool as to lend it.'
'Catch me doing that! I know better. Why, he has never paid me back that five shillings' - and so they went on.
Now all Margaret's anxiety was for the train to come. She hid once more in the ladies' waiting-room, and fancied every noise was Leonards' step - every loud and boisterous voice was his. But the train drew up; she was civilly helped into a carriage by a porter, at whom she dared not look till they were in motion, and then she saw that it was not Leonards.