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Charlotte was subdued, and did not insist further; while Somerset, before he could feel himself able to decide on the mood in which the gallant captain's joke at Paula's expense should be taken, wondered whether it were a married man or a bachelor who uttered it. He had not been able to keep the question of De Stancy's domestic state out of his head from the first moment of seeing him.
'I have promised the lady to whom this money belongs whose generosity has been shamefully abused in some way that I will deliver it into no hands but those of one man, and he has not yet appeared. I therefore go to find him. Dare laid his hand upon De Stancy's arm. 'Captain, we are both warm, and punctilious on points of honour; this will come to a split between us if we don't mind.
The sight of Paula in her graceful performance, which the judicious Dare had so carefully planned, led up to and heightened by subtle accessories, operated on De Stancy's surprised soul with a promptness almost magical. On the evening of the self-same day, having dined as usual, he retired to his rooms, where he found a hamper of wine awaiting him.
Yet Dare would have preferred a stronger check upon his confederate than was afforded by his own knowledge of that anonymous letter and the competition trick. For were the competition lost to him, Havill would have no further interest in conciliating Miss Power; would as soon as not let her know the secret of De Stancy's relation to him. Fortune as usual helped him in his dilemma.
It is not necessary to detail in full De Stancy's imperceptible advances with Paula during that northward journey so slowly performed that it seemed as if she must perceive there was a special reason for delaying her return to England. At Cologne one day he conveniently overtook her when she was ascending the hotel staircase.
To precisely describe Captain De Stancy's admiration was impossible. A sun seemed to rise in his face. By watching him they could almost see the aspect of her within the wall, so accurately were her changing phases reflected in him. He seemed to forget that he was not alone. 'And is this, he murmured, in the manner of one only half apprehending himself, 'and is this the end of my vow?
De Stancy looked with interest round the gallery; seeing which Paula said she would have lights brought in a moment. 'No, please not, said De Stancy. 'The room and ourselves are of so much more interesting a colour by this light! As they moved hither and thither, the various expressions of De Stancy's face made themselves picturesquely visible in the unsteady shine of the blaze.
Captain De Stancy's face softened with satisfaction. 'There is something in that; the game is not up after all. The sixth it had gone clean out of my head, by gad!
Somerset, though misty in his conjectures, was seized with a growing conviction that there was something in Miss De Stancy's allusion to the telegram which ought to be explained. He felt an insurmountable objection to cross the water that night, or till he had been able to see Charlotte again, and learn more of her meaning.
'But I have driven over to my father's Sir William De Stancy's house this morning, she went on. 'And on mentioning your name to him, I found he knew it quite well. You will, will you not, forgive my ignorance in having no better knowledge of the elder Mr. Somerset's works than a dim sense of his fame as a painter?
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