Question from a novel "Carol"
"Are you free Saturday?"
She remembered now, she was not. "I'm free Friday," she said resignedly. "Saturday's a late day."
Richard smiled. "It's a conspiracy." He took her hands and drew her arms around his waist, his restless prowling of the room at the end.

What does "prowling of the room at the end" mean here?

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Question from a novel "Carol"
"Are you free Saturday?"
She remembered now, she was not. "I'm free Friday," she said resignedly. "Saturday's a late day."
Richard smiled. "It's a conspiracy." He took her hands and drew her arms around his waist, his restless prowling of the room at the end.

What does "prowling of the room at the end" mean here?

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I completely agree with Gerard- his prowling must have finished when he wrapped her arms round his waist. 
In fact, if it said 'at the end,' it wouldn't make any sense at all.

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thank you for your help!! you are right it is at an end

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Does it actually say "at the end" or "at an end"?  It sounds to me as if Richard had been walking back and forth in the room, nervously, and that when he embraced her that ended.  "Prowling" means generally what someone like a burglar would do outside a house, moving around in a sneaky way.  But I don't have the book to be sure of my understanding.

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