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 an abominable and dangerous locality caused him great mental alarm, but he answered calmly:

“I don’t quite know. But we will not speak about them. See, we shall soon get across the forest, and then comes the turnpike, and then the town. It is such a pity we started out so late.”

She felt inclined to laugh when he said, “so late,” because they had set out at four o’clock; then she looked at him and smiled, upon which he knitted his brow—then she essayed to comfort, and to calm him.

“Let us walk quicker; I long for some tea; besides the forest is quite near.”

“Let us go.”

They entered the forest, the tall trees entwining their top branches rendered the avenues very dark. Earlier in the day the spot though solitary would have been very pleasant.