Then, moving with the same
quiet suppression, he passed from the room, down the stairs,
and out into the street by the way he had come.
XX
On the fifth day after the momentous 1st of April on which he
had recalled Loder and resumed his own life Chilcote left his
house and walked towards Bond Street. Though the morning was
clear and the air almost warm for the time of year, he was
buttoned into a long overcoat and was wearing a muffler and a
pair of doeskin gloves. As he passed along the street he kept
close to the house fronts to avoid the sun that was everywhere
stirring the winterbound town, like a suffusion of young blood
through old veins. He avoided the warmth because in this
instance warmth meant light, but as he moved he shivered
slightly from time to time with the haunting, permeating cold
that of late had become his persistent shadow.
He was ill at case as he hurried forward. With each
succeeding day of the old life the new annoyances, the new
obligations became more hampering.
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