“My dear fellow, I assure you I wasn’t asleep. I only closed my eyes because I can’t bear the glare of that candle. I know where you were—you were looking at the sunset.”
“No, we weren’t.”
“Weren’t they, Jessie? Are you asleep?”
“No, I am not asleep. Do hold your tongue, Willy, I want to hear the story. You were standing by the lock, Mr. Escott.”
“Ah, yes, so they were.”
“I felt it was my duty, so I told her that I felt it was my mission to save—to save her from that man, and I made her promise me not to see him again.”
“Then it is all right. Nobody can be more glad than I am. I hate the fellow.”
“She will not keep her promise. Of course she may only have done it to tease me; but as we were going home she said she could not walk out of the room if she happened to be there when he ca
