Her manner was just as impassive, her face as solemn as before, and she never showed that she noticed any change in her mistress way of life.

But it was just this cold-blooded acceptance of facts which must at the very least excite her remark that upset him so much, and every time Anne came into the room and found him with Pilar, he was as much ashamed as if she had surprised him in some cowardly and wicked deed.

Did he happen to be sitting beside her on the sofa, he started as if to jump up; if he had hold of her hand, he dropped it on the spot.

Pilar noticed it, of course, and thought it an excellent joke.

She was herself perfectly unconcerned before Anne, and put no constraint on herself whatever in her presence.