The man slinks along in the deepest shadow he can find, and, at some distance, accommodates his pace to Rose's: stopping when she stops: and as she moves again, creeping stealthily on: but never allowing himself, in the ardour of his pursuit, to gain upon her footsteps.
Shrinking into one of the recesses which surmount the piers of the bridge, and leaning over the parapet the better to conceal his figure, he suffers her to pass on the opposite pavement.