Chapter 21

Miss Griffin was a model of propriety and I am at a loss to imagine what the feelings of a virtuous woman would have been if she had known when she was shown to us in Second Hampstead Road when she strode stately on the heads of several wives, I think the vague and terrible joy with which Miss Griffin's contemplation inspired us In this unconscious state, with the gloomy feeling between us that there was a dreadful power in our knowledge of what Miss Griffin knew who knew all things that could be, when I got the book, I did not know what was the main thing to keep our secret, which was kept Adorable, but she was about to betray us.

When peril and flight occurred on Sunday we were all in a conspicuous part of the foyer in the church, and Miss Griffin at the helm as every Sunday we were announcing the institution in a non-secular fashion When I chanced to read a description of Solomon in his domestic glory, at the moment this was referred to the King hesitated An inner voice say