She surely understood him, and felt for his loneliness more than any of them.

Had she not been feeling for it through long and sad months?
But it was she whom he was thinking of, she whom he was speaking to, all along.

Oh, why had the tale ended so soon?
She would gladly have sat and wept her eyes out till midnight over one melodious misery after another; but she was quite wise enough to keep her secret to herself; and sat behind the rest, with greedy eyes and demure lips, full of strange and new happiness--or misery; she knew not which to call it.
In the meanwhile, as it was ordained, Cary could see and hear through the window of the hall a good deal of what was going on.
"How that Spanish crocodile ogles the Rose!" whispered he to young St.
Leger.
"What wonder?
He is not the first by many a one." "Ay--but--By heaven, she is making side-shots at him with those languishing eyes of hers, the little baggage!" "What wonder?
He is not the first, say I, and won't be the last.

Pass the wine, man." "I have had enough; between sack and singing, my head is as mazed as a dizzy sheep.

Let me slip out." "Not yet, man; remember you are bound for one song more." So Cary, against his will, sat and sang another song; and in the meanwhile the party had broken up, and wandered away by twos and threes, among trim gardens and pleasaunces, and clipped yew-walks-- Where west-winds with musky wing About the cedarn alleys fling Nard and cassia's balmy smells--" admiring the beauty of that stately place, long since passed into other hands, and fallen to decay, but then (if old Prince speaks true) one of the noblest mansions of the West.
At last Cary got away and out; sober, but just enough flushed with wine to be ready for any quarrel; and luckily for him, had not gone twenty yards along the great terrace before he met Lady Grenville.
"Has your ladyship seen Don Guzman ?" "Yes--why, where is he?
He was with me not ten minutes ago.