Don't disturb me any longer.' She did not venture to linger.
The breakfast next morning seemed likely to pass without any interchange of words.

But when Yule was pushing back his chair, Marian--who looked pale and ill--addressed a question to him about the work she would ordinarily have pursued to-day at the Reading-room.

He answered in a matter-of-fact tone, and for a few minutes they talked on the subject much as at any other time.

Half an hour after, Marian set forth for the Museum in the usual way.

Her father stayed at home.
It was the end of the episode for the present.