He was interrupted in these conjectures by a carriage nearly passing over his toes at a crossing in Bond Street: looking up he saw between the two windows of the vehicle the profile of a thickly mantled bosom, on which a camellia rose and fell.

All the remainder part of the lady's person was hidden; but he remembered that flower of convenient season as one which had figured in the bank parlour half-an-hour earlier to-day.
Somerset hastened after the carriage, and in a minute saw it stop opposite a jeweller's shop.

Out came Paula, and then another woman, in whom he recognized Mrs.Birch, one of the lady's maids at Stancy Castle.
The young man was at Paula's side before she had crossed the pavement.
VI.
A quick arrested expression in her two sapphirine eyes, accompanied by a little, a very little, blush which loitered long, was all the outward disturbance that the sight of her lover caused.

The habit of self-repression at any new emotional impact was instinctive with her always.

Somerset could not say more than a word; he looked his intense solicitude, and Paula spoke.
She declared that this was an unexpected pleasure.