'Destiny may do that yet!' she said.

'The Palace Hotel ?' she repeated, speaking once more to herself.
'The old hell, transformed into the new purgatory.

The place itself! Jesu Maria! the place itself!' She paused and laid her hand on her companion's arm.

'Perhaps Miss Lockwood is not going there with the rest of you ?' she burst out with sudden eagerness.

'Are you positively sure she will be at the hotel ?' 'Positively! Haven't I told you that Miss Lockwood travels with Lord and Lady Montbarry?
and don't you know that she is a member of the family?
You will have to move, Countess, to our hotel.' She was perfectly impenetrable to the bantering tone in which he spoke.
'Yes,' she said faintly, 'I shall have to move to your hotel.' Her hand was still on his arm--he could feel her shivering from head to foot while she spoke.