Knowing Diane’s feelings towards her family, Lucy was inwardly shocked when Diane invited her to stay. ‘Monsieur Charvill thought perhaps that his daughter would find not a welcome. “What you have said is a ridiculous falsehood,” she declared scornfully. “Then why the devil,” he demanded, “do you let me stand you dinners and the opera—and why do you come to a cabinet particuliar with me?” He became radiant with anger. The hurricane had now reached its climax. Who was he to tread on her dreams? She had heroworshipped an unscrupulous adventurer, who had not hesitated to impose on her youth and her ignorance. . "What will you do?" asked Thames. It was the largest room in the house, which was why it had been given over to the main business of the convent as a house of God. Where her husband saw only two youngsters in the mating mood, she felt that tragedy in some phase lurked in this room—if only in the loneliness of these two, without kith or kin apparently, thousands of miles from home. He carried a cane and a silk hat with a mourning-band in one gray-gloved hand; his frock-coat and trousers were admirable; his handsome face, his black mustache, his prominent brow conveyed an eager solicitude. “There is no time for that. He had the same dark eyes, though lighted by a fierce flame; the same sallow complexion; the same tall, thin figure, and majestic demeanour; the same proud cast of features.
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