And he set out to find the Maire's. It took him some ten minutes wandering among blind lanes, and when he arrived it was already half-an-hour past midnight.

他开始寻找 Maire's。在死胡同里转了十几分钟，到的时候已经是午夜半点多了。

In the shadow of bank and wall the three turned out of the road, and up a blind lane, of which the wall—there, risen to some eight or ten feet high—formed one side.

在河岸和围墙的阴影下，三个人转身离开了大路， 走上了一条死胡同， 墙——在那里，高约八或十英尺——形成了死胡同的一侧。