half-disengaged

Updated: June 18, 2025

She had Surgeon-Major Livingstone's orders, and he on this occasion had his sister's. There was an air of relief, of tension relaxed, between the two women in the drawing-room; it was plain that Alicia had communicated these things to her visitor, in their main import. Hilda was already half-disengaged from the subject, her eye wandered as if in search for the avenue to another.

Sara Jeannette Duncan - Hilda: A Story of Calcutta