Chapter 4: From August the Twenty-Sixth to September the First

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​‌​‌​‌​⁠The two Cythereas continued at the Westminster Hotel, Miss Aldclyffe informing her companion that business would detain them in London another week. The days passed as slowly and quietly as days can pass in a city at that time of the year, the shuttered windows about the squares and terraces confronting their eyes like the white and sightless orbs of blind men. On Thursday Mr. Nyttleton called, br