Why, then, did he touch it? As he climbed heavily into his chair, she was able to note the little beads of sweat under the cracked nether lip. On the right of the postern against the wall was affixed a small grating, sustaining the debtor's box; and any pleasure which the passerby might derive from contemplating the splendid structure above described was damped at beholding the pale faces and squalid figures of the captives across the bars of its strongly-grated windows. That he should pay forty pounds to help this girl who preferred another man was no less in his eyes than a fraud and mockery that made her denial a maddening and outrageous disgrace to him. He accepted the glass of wine, and bowed. He had not thought to find a lady so ready of humour and willing to give him a hearing. And the change, the change of attitude! The way all the old clingingness has been thrown aside is amazing. “Bother it all!” she swore. But her mind was ruffled, and its mirror-like surface of satisfaction was not easily restored. A slight cough uttered by Jonathan at the moment awakened the echoes of the place, and was returned in hollow reverberations.
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