Hill would have followed her, but Mrs. Hoped you'd not be retaken. Planting his knee against her side, he pulled her towards him with one hand, while with the other he sought his knife. The oblique ruddy lighting distorted them oddly, made queer bars and patches of shadow upon their clothes. From what she could tell, he truly had convinced himself that he was in love with her, but she knew that his ardor would fade eventually inasmuch as she knew John’s would. The candle was shaking in his hand as Ruth appeared in the doorway. Divers plans and figures were chalked upon the walls; and the spaces between them were filled up with an almanack for the year; a godly ballad, adorned with a rude wood-cut, purporting to be "The History of Chaste Susannah;" an old print of the Seven Golden Candlesticks; an abstract of the various Acts of Parliament against drinking, swearing, and all manner of profaneness; and a view of the interior of Doctor Daniel Burgess's Presbyterian meeting-house in Russell Court, with portraits of the reverend gentleman and the principal members of his flock. She closed her eyes and felt again an echo of the swamping warmth that had attacked her when his lips met hers. How could she tell him what indeed already began to puzzle herself, why she had borrowed that money at all? The plain fact was that she had grabbed a bait. "Thanks," he said, holding out a thin white hand.
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