CHAPTER LXXXI.
JOHANNA IS ENCOURAGED.
Was Todd satisfied with Johanna’s excuse about the toothache? Was he satisfied of the good foible of the supposed Charley Green, by the readiness with which she had come into the parlour? We shall see. If he were not satisfied, he was staggered in his suspicions sufficiently to delay—and delay just then was to Sweeney Todd—one of the most fatal things that could be imagined. There are crumbs of consolation under all circumstances. When Johanna was best sent out of the shop, upon the occasion of the visit of Mrs. Lovett to Todd, she had scarcely got a half dozen steps from the door of the barber’s, when a man in passing her, and without pausing a moment, said—
“Miss Oakley, be so good as to follow me.”
Johanna at once obeyed the mandate. The man wal
