"You have begun well, sir. I hear you are a great scholar, Latin and all
that, quite pat. Damme, sir, those ancients understood things. They knew
how to honour the gods, for they made soldiers of 'em and set 'em fighting
in the clouds. There's divinity for you! You've got twenty-eight minutes."
I laughed and left him.
The room in which my introduction to the Colonel had taken place was
immediately over the archway. Its window opened on to a balcony which,
supported on thick oak balks, stood over the causeway of the street; its
door was in a passage leading from one wing of the house to the other, and
in the passage were three leaded lattice-windows of greenish glass,
plentifully sprinkled with blobs and nodes, giving on the long inn-yard.
The room was thus admirably situated for people in our precarious
position, having a look-out back and front, and a way of escape right and
left.
The cherry-cheeked lass who had thrown me the kiss was tripping past the
door as I opened it. She told me that she had been attending on ''er
ladyship,' and willingly led me to a bedroom and brought me thither the
things I needed for my sluicing, among them a passable razor and a
huckaback fit to fetch the hide off a horse.
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