The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle Volume 1 Chapter 54

In which a contrived alarm enables our hero to gain secret entrance to the chamber of his beloved, only to be thwarted by an unexpected disturbance that brings about a most comical and painful misunderstanding. The episode concludes with the friar’s intervention and a discomfited painter’s lament, as night’s prospects fade into a dawn of bitter disappointment for young Pickle.