Before going to bed, I had taken it from my suitcase to trim a candle-wick, and had left it upon the bookstand.
He doubles back round the bookstand, setting it whirling as he makes for the left door, Julia crossing in pursuit of him.
She comes down from the settee and takes the chair near the bookstand.
It is a book out of the library or off the bookstand, or bought of the boy hawking books through the cars.
He was rather curious to see the little place in the rear of the bookstand where the old man lived alone.