Would she look at it?
Paula was severe and icy.

'Thank you--I don't wish to see it,' she said.
De Stancy bowed and departed in a glow of triumph; satisfied, notwithstanding her frigidity, that he had compassed his immediate aim, which was that she might not be able to dismiss from her thoughts him and his persevering desire for the shadow of her face during the next four-and-twenty-hours.

And his confidence was well founded: she could not.
'I fear this Divine Comedy will be slow business for us, captain,' said Dare, who had heard her cold words.
'O no!' said De Stancy, flushing a little: he had not been perceiving that the lad had the measure of his mind so entirely as to gauge his position at any moment.

But he would show no shamefacedness.

'Even if it is, my boy,' he answered, 'there's plenty of time before the other can come.' At that hour and minute of De Stancy's remark 'the other,' to look at him, seemed indeed securely shelved.