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And, without being overfanciful, it may be confidently asserted that, for some weeks now, ever since indeed the specialists summoned in consultation at the good Lovegroves' and the Lady of the Windswept Dust's urgent request had pronounced the cardiac affection, from which Dominic Iglesias suffered, likely to terminate fatally in the near future, this living stillness, this alert tranquillity, had been more or less sensible to all those who entered the house, offering an arresting contrast to the multitudinous rush and clamour of London without.
Or were the two of them caught in one of those inextricable coils which Hollister perceived to arise in the lives of men and women, from which they could not free themselves without great courage and ruthless disregard of consequences? Sometimes Hollister wondered if he himself were not overfanciful, too sensitive to moods and impressions.
It is not, perhaps, overfanciful to see something of the lavish richness, the opulent homeliness, of the earlier period typified in the varied buildings, courts, and gateways of the Tudor portion of the Palace, and the more formal grandeur of the later time in the symmetrical stateliness of the later part.
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