Then came the brotherly and quite natural desire to outshine Richard and put things out a little.

I liked it all very much, and was charmed to be of so much consequence, for I saw all this quite plainly.

I laughed and talked a good deal with Kilian; he was delightful to laugh and talk with.

Even Eugene Whitney found me more worth his weak attention than the beautiful and placid Henrietta.
The amusement was chiefly at our end of the table.

But amidst it, I did not fail to glance often at the door and wonder, uncomfortably, why the tutor did not come.
As we left the table and lingered for a few moments in the hall, Richard came up to me and said, as he prepared to light his cigar, "Will you not come out and walk up and down the path here with me while I smoke ?" I began to make some excuse, for I wanted to do nothing just then but watch the stairway to see if Mr.Langenau did not come down even then and go into the dining-room.
But I reflected how ungracious it would seem to refuse this, when he had just come home, and I followed him out into the path.
There was no moon, but the stars were very bright, and the air was sweet with the flower-beds in the grass along the path we walked.
The house looked gay and pleasant as we walked up and down before it, with its many lighted windows, and people with bright dresses moving about on the piazza.