'
'Oh, that'll very soon pass over. There's always something new
happening, and people quickly forget a case like this.'
Bessie withdrew, and her lodger addressed himself to his breakfast.
He had occupied the rooms on the first floor for about a year and a
half. Joseph Snowdon's proposal to make him acquainted with Jane had
not been carried out, Scawthorne deeming it impracticable; but when
a year had gone by, and Scawthorne, as Joseph's confidential
correspondent, had still to report that Jane maintained herself in
independence, he one day presented himself in Hanover Street, as a
total stranger, and made inquiry about the rooms which a card told
him were to let. His improved position allowed him to live somewhat
more reputably than in the Chelsea lodging, and Hanover Street would
suit him well enough until he obtained the promised partnership.
Admitted as a friend to Mr. Percival's house in Highbury, he had by
this time made the acquaintance of Miss Lant, whom, by the exercise
of his agreeable qualities, he one day led to speak of Jane Snowdon.
Miss Lant continued to see Jane, at long intervals, and was fervent
in her praise as well as in compassionating the trials through which
she had gone.
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