I had crossed with them to England, and if their presence on the train were not the cause for Louis' insisting upon my hurried departure from Paris, it at any rate afforded him gratification to think that I might, perhaps, make their acquaintance.

During the whole of the journey neither of them had made the slightest overture towards me.

That we had come together at all was, without doubt, accidental.
I did not for a moment doubt the girl's first attitude of irritation towards me.

It was just as certain that her uncle had shown no desire whatever to make my acquaintance.

I remembered his curious agitation as we had reached London, his muttered excuse of sea-sickness, and his somewhat extraordinary conduct in leaving his niece alone with me--a perfect stranger--while he hurried off to the hotel at which he had never arrived.