Her merry and half ironical laugh was not the natural response of a woman of the intense and aesthetic type.
"I don't understand her yet," he admitted; and he again assured himself that it was not necessary that he should.

She had not merely drifted away from him, but had deliberately chosen that others should guide and help in the new development.

The thing for him to do now was to secure the girl of his heart, who was not shrouded in mystery.

It was evident that Mr.Arnault had been an urgent suitor, and that she was not already engaged to him proved, as he believed, that she had been under the influence of a restraint readily explained by her more than manner toward himself.

"She will have to choose between us soon," he thought.