He glanced at Miss Klegg again, and spoke quickly and furtively, with eager eyes on Ann Veronica’s face. She doesn’t like you because she says the Beck’s are not ‘our kind of people’ which is her code for them not being rich enough. He had gained admission somehow, and he too was waiting for Anna. She refused coffee, though she knew that anyhow she was doomed to a sleepless night. Like the Castle, which it resembled in all respects except that it was destitute even of a barrack-bedstead, the Red Room was reserved for state-prisoners, and had not been occupied since the year 1716, when the jail, as has before been mentioned, was crowded by the Preston rebels. She fought a compulsive urge to yank his shirt free. Before he re-entered the prison, he hesitated from a doubt whether he was not fearfully increasing his risk of capture; but, convinced that he had no other alternative, he went on. She met the keen grey eyes of a clean-shaven man, between forty and fifty, quietly dressed in professional attire. At this moment, the landlord of the Crown, a jovial-looking stout personage, with a white apron round his waist, issued from the house, bearing a large wooden bowl filled with ale, which he offered to Jack, who instantly rose to receive it. She clenched her hands together and leaned forward in her chair, gazing steadily into the fire. In his youth he must have been a remarkably handsome man, for he is still handsome. “Couldn’t we three go out and have some coffee somewhere? The thought of that drawing-room paralyses me.
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