She had begun to have a feeling that people eyed them covertly, with significant glances, that they were thrown together by design.

Wherever they met, he always fell to her lot as dinner-partner, and he had begun to affect an attitude of proprietorship towards her which was yet too indefinite for her actively to resent, She felt as if a net were closing around her from which, despite her utmost effort, she was powerless to escape.

Also, for weeks now she had received no letter from Guy, and that fact disheartened her more than any other.

She had never before had to wait so long for word from him.

Very brief, often unsatisfying, as his letters had been, at least they had never failed to arrive.