" At this point he rose and
walked about the room for a quarter of an hour. He sat down again and
took up an important paper about the Trust. He had forgotten it and it
was to be discussed the next day. His eyes wandered over it but he paid
no attention to it; and somewhat disgusted with himself he went to bed.
Mrs. Fairfax had happened to tell him that she was fond of walking soon
after breakfast before she opened her shop, and generally preferred the
lane on the west side of the Common. From his house the direct road to
the lane lay down the High Street, but about a fortnight after that
evening in his study he found himself one morning in Deadman's Rents, a
narrow, dirty alley which led to the east side of the Common. Deadman's
Rents was inhabited by men who worked in brickyards and coalyards, who
did odd jobs, and by washerwomen and charwomen. It contained also three
beershops. The dwellers in the Rents were much surprised to see the
Doctor amongst them at that early hour, and conjectured he must have
come on a professional errand.
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