Jean Jacques, though not naturally suspicious, had, however, seen an understanding look pass between his Zoe and this stranger--this Protestant English stranger from the outer world, to which Jean Jacques went less frequently since his fruitless search for his vanished Carmen.
The Clerk of the Court saw that Jean Jacques had observed the intimate glances of the two young people, and their eyes met in understanding.

It was just before Zoe had sung so charmingly, 'Oh, Who Will Walk the Wood With Me'.
At first after Carmen's going Jean Jacques had found it hard to endure singing in his house.

Zoe's trilling was torture to him, though he had never forbidden her to sing, and she had sung on to her heart's content.
By a subtle instinct, however, and because of the unspoken sorrow in her own heart, she never sang the songs like 'La Manola'.

Never after the day Carmen went did Zoe speak of her mother to anyone at all.

It was worse than death; it was annihilation, so far as speech was concerned.
The world at large only knew that Carmen Barbille had run away, and that even Sebastian Dolores her father did not know where she was.