She seated herself in her favorite rocking-chair; she laid her fan on the table near her and her reticule by it, and she pushed back from her shoulders a little India shawl.
By the aid of such a map, I started out the next morning to meet my friend, whose quarters were in a distant part of the city, about three miles away.
A certain chivalrous instinct warned him that this was no time, while his idol lay under a heavy obligation, to press his suit.