But my father said that business called him back, and I noticed that he was deeply troubled." "When did you notice that ?" asked Chayne, quickly.

"When did you first notice it ?" Sylvia reflected for a moment.
"The day after you had gone." "Are you sure ?" asked Chayne, with a certain intensity.
"Quite." Chayne nodded his head.
"I did not understand the reason of the hurry.

And I was perplexed--and also a little alarmed.

Everything which I did not understand frightened me in those days." She spoke as if "those days" and all their dark events belonged to some dim period of which no consequence could reach her now.
"Our departure had almost the look of a flight." "Yes," said Chayne.

For his part he was not surprised at their flight.