Chapter 58Half a minute led them through the pump yard to the archway opposite the Union Passage; but here they were stopped. Anyone familiar with Bath may remember the difficulty of crossing Cheap Street at this point; It is, in fact, a street of such an outrageous nature, so unfortunately connected to the great streets of London and Oxford and the city's most important inn, that not a day goes by when ladies' parties, however important their shops, are looking for pastries, hat goods or even (as in the present case) of young men are not on one side or the other of carriages, Riders or carts held. Bella had felt and lamented this evil at least three times a day since her stay in Bath; and it was her destiny to feel and lament it again, because just as she approached the Union Passage,
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