Strange to say, he had been instructed from London to look out for just such a coup on the part of the heirs.

Not that the marriage could be legally established, but that it might create a complication worth avoiding.
He could not help looking from Lady Deppingham to Bobby Browne, a calculating gleam in his grey eyes.

How very dangerous she could be! He was quite ready to feel very sorry for pretty Mrs.Browne.Browne, of course, revealed no present symptom of surrender to the charms of his co-legatee.

Later on, he was to recall this bit of calculation and to enlarge upon it from divers points of view.
Just now he was enjoying himself for the first time since his arrival in Japat.

He sat opposite to the Princess; his eyes were refreshing themselves after months of fatigue; his blood was coursing through new veins.