Goodbye.' 'Good-bye.' They parted amid the flowering shrubs and caged birds in the hall, and he saw her no more.

De Stancy came up, and spoke a few commonplace words, his sister having gone out, either without perceiving Somerset, or with intention to avoid him.
That night, as he had said, he was on his way to England.
VII.
The De Stancys and Powers remained in Heidelberg for some days.

All remarked that after Somerset's departure Paula was frequently irritable, though at other times as serene as ever.

Yet even when in a blithe and saucy mood there was at bottom a tinge of melancholy.

Something did not lie easy in her undemonstrative heart, and all her friends excused the inequalities of a humour whose source, though not positively known, could be fairly well guessed.
De Stancy had long since discovered that his chance lay chiefly in her recently acquired and fanciful predilection d'artiste for hoary mediaeval families with ancestors in alabaster and primogenitive renown.
Seeing this he dwelt on those topics which brought out that aspect of himself more clearly, talking feudalism and chivalry with a zest that he had never hitherto shown.