Chapter 16

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​‌​​‌​​‌​‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​​​‌​‌​‌​​​​‌​​‌​​‌​‌⁠After this there only remained to be settled between them the practical details of the project.

These were that he should leave home in a couple of days, and take lodgings either in the distant city of Bath or in a convenient suburb of London, till a sufficient time should have elapsed to satisfy legal requirements; that on a fine morning at the end of this time she should hie away to the same plac