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Severance sauntered up and down the "Forty Steps," the repose of his bearing belying the agitation within.
"Why on earth doesn't she come? " he thought uneasily. "Can she be ill again? She is ten minutes behind time now. What did it mean-all those fellows there last night? She looked like an amused spectator at a play, and Miss Decker was nervous, actually nervous. Damn it! Here they all come. What do they mean by keeping under my heels like this?"