’
‘Perhaps you don’t, Hilary,’ Gerald said mildly, smiling at the young lady and
indicating one of the wide window seats. Ruth's
emotion was a primitive joy: she was essential in this man's life, and she would
always be happy because he would always be needing her. ’
‘Why must you?’ asked Gerald calmly. ’
‘Comment? But already he has made this visit—in town. ’
With satisfaction, Gerald noted that her voice was hopelessly unsteady and
drove home his advantage. A few seconds sufficed to clear the passage, through which it had
previously cost him more than two hours to force his way. This gate, called Newgate, "as being latelier builded
than the rest," continued, for upwards of three hundred years, to be used as a
place of imprisonment for felons and trespassers; at the end of which time,
having grown old, ruinous, and "horribly loathsome," it was rebuilt and enlarged
by the executors of the renowned Sir Richard Whittington, the Lord Mayor of
London: whence it afterwards obtained amongst a certain class of students,
whose examinations were conducted with some strictness at the Old Bailey, and
their highest degrees taken at Hyde-park-corner, the appellation of Whittington's
College, or, more briefly, the Whit. ’
‘You traitor, Gerald,’ laughed Lucilla, her yellow curls bouncing under a huge
straw bonnet all over flowers.
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