However, let that go.

So now you are here on a call; but how are you going to get here often enough to win her before the other man comes back?
If you don't see her every day--twice, three times a day--you will not capture her in the time.' 'I must think of that,' said De Stancy.
'There is only one way of being constantly here: you must come to copy the pictures or furniture, something in the way he did.' 'I'll think of it,' muttered De Stancy hastily, as he heard the voices of the ladies, whom he hastened to join as they were appearing at the other end of the room.

His countenance was gloomy as he recrossed the hall, for Dare's words on the shortness of his opportunities had impressed him.

Almost at once he uttered a hope to Paula that he might have further chance of studying, and if possible of copying, some of the ancestral faces with which the building abounded.
Meanwhile Dare had come forward with his portfolio, which proved to be full of photographs.

While Paula and Charlotte were examining them he said to De Stancy, as a stranger: 'Excuse my interruption, sir, but if you should think of copying any of the portraits, as you were stating just now to the ladies, my patent photographic process is at your service, and is, I believe, the only one which would be effectual in the dim indoor lights.' 'It is just what I was thinking of,' said De Stancy, now so far cooled down from his irritation as to be quite ready to accept Dare's adroitly suggested scheme.
On application to Paula she immediately gave De Stancy permission to photograph to any extent, and told Dare he might bring his instruments as soon as Captain De Stancy required them.
'Don't stare at her in such a brazen way!' whispered the latter to the young man, when Paula had withdrawn a few steps.