midday
At Times Square Ravenslee entered the subway and , buying his ticket , was jostled by a boy , a freckled boy , round-headed and round of nose , who stared at him with a pair of round , impertinent eyes . Lost in happy speculation he was duly borne to One Hundred and Thirtieth Street , where he boarded the ferry . Upon the boat he was again conscious of a round head that bobbed here and there amid the throng of passengers , but paid small heed as he leaned to watch the broad and noble river and the green New Jersey shore . At Fort Lee , exchanging boat for trolley car , he was once more vaguely conscious of two round eyes that watched him from a rear seat ; but as the powerful car whirled them up-hill , plunged them down steep inclines , swung them around sharp curves , through shady woods , past far-flung boughs whose leaves stirred and whispered as the great car fleeted by , he fell again to dreaming of Hermione and the future ; and so reached Englewood , a small township dreaming in the fierce midday sunshine . Here he enquired of a perspiring butcher in shirtsleeves the whereabouts of the house he wanted and , being fully directed and carefully admonished how to get there , set off along the road . And remembering that her feet must often have traversed this very path , he straightway fell to his dreaming again . Thus how should he know anything of the round head that bobbed out from behind bush or tree ere it followed whither he went ?