My repeated assurance that my motive was good availed less than nothing.

In a minute or two Caroline arose and went abruptly out of the room, and my father followed her, leaving me alone to my reflections.
I was so bent upon finding Charles immediately that I did not notice whither they went.

The servants told me that M.de la Feste was just outside smoking, and one of them went to look for him, I following; but before we had gone many steps he came out of the hotel behind me.

I expected him to be amazed; but he showed no surprise at seeing me, though he showed another kind of feeling to an extent which dismayed me.

I may have revealed something similar; but I struggled hard against all emotion, and as soon as I could I told him she had come.