I'm only waiting till you, as a medical man, tell me that Diane's health is sufficiently restored for me to inform her." "No woman is ever in such health that you can break her heart with impunity." Hugh's light-grey eyes gleamed like steel.
"Will you answer my question ?" he said curtly.
Lancaster sprang up.
"Diane is in as good health now as ever she was," he said violently.

And strode out of the room.
During the period of her convalescence Diane, attended by Nurse Maynard, had occupied rooms situated in a distant wing of the house, where the invalid was not likely to be disturbed by the coming and going of other members of the household, and it was with almost the excitement of a schoolgirl coming home for the holidays that, when she was at last released from the doctor's supervision, she retook possession of her own room.

She superintended joyously the restoration to their accustomed place her various little personal possessions, and finally peeped into her husband's adjoining room, thinking she heard him moving there.
On the threshold she paused irresolutely, conscious of an odd sense of confusion.

The room was vacant.

But, beyond that, its whole aspect was different somehow, unfamiliar.