He looked down into a piazza and he saw two figures there, a man and a woman.

They were Colonel Talbot and Madame Delaunay.

He closed the blind promptly, feeling that unconsciously he had touched upon something hallowed, the thread of an old romance, a thread which, though slender, was nevertheless yet strong.

Nor did he doubt that the suggestion of Colonel Leonidas Talbot had caused the speedy withdrawal of Shepard.
Several more days passed.

Harry found that he was taken into the city's heart, and its spell was very strong upon him.