Goodwin and Mrs. Goodwin were there, but that Miss Goodwin was
unable to come. He asked where Mr. Goodwin and Mrs. Goodwin resided,
and, having been informed on this point, he immediately passed to the
farmer's house where they lodged.
Now, it so happened that there was a neat garden attached to the house,
in which was an arbor of willows where Miss Goodwin was in the habit of
sitting, and amusing herself by the perusal of a book. It contained an
arm-chair, in which she frequently reclined, sometimes after the slight
exertion of walking; it also happened that she occasionally fell
asleep. There were two modes of approach to the farmer's house--one by
the ordinary pathway, and another much shorter, which led by a gate that
opened into the garden. By this last the guide who pointed out the house
to Woodward directed him to proceed, and he did so. On passing through,
his eye caught the summer house, and he saw at a glance that Alice
Goodwin was there, and asleep. She was, indeed, asleep, but it was
a troubled sleep, for the demon gaze of the terrible eye which she
dreaded, and which had almost blasted her out of life, she imagined was
one more fixed upon her.
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