The String of Pearls (1850), p. 409

"Yes, sir."
She left the shop, and then her first impulse would have induced her to hurry over the road to the fruiterer's shop, but her eyes fell upon the figure of Sir Richard Blunt standing in the fruiterer's doorwav. He moved his hand signifying that she should go towards the market, and she did so. He quickly followed her.

THE WIDOW ASKS FOR CHARITY OF HER HUSBAND'S MURDERER—TODD.{Figure}

She did not look behind her, until she was quite in the old Fleet-market and then, just as she looked round, Sir Richard Blunt touched her arm.
"You understood my message," he said.
"Yes. My father."
"Exactly. It is concerning him, It appears that some busy-body, a man I