That makes it clear that she must have left Lacville some time in the early afternoon.

I wish--I cannot help wishing--that I had not gone into Paris yesterday, Count Paul." And then suddenly she realised how ungracious her words must sound.
"No, no," she cried, impetuously.

"Of course, I do not mean that! I had a very, very happy time, and your sister was very kind and sweet to me.

But it makes me unhappy to think that Anna may have been worried and anxious about money with me away--" There was a pause, and then, in a very different voice, Sylvia Bailey asked the Comte de Virieu a question that seemed to him utterly irrelevant.
"Do you believe in fortune-tellers ?" she asked abruptly.

"Are you superstitious ?" "Like everyone else, I have been to such people," he answered indifferently.