He was not well when he came here; and to make himself worse he must needs go dancing at the Casino with this lady and that--among others with a young American lady who is here with her family, and whom he met in London last year.

I advised him against it, but he seemed desperately determined to shake off lethargy by any rash means, and wouldn't listen to me.

Luckily he is not in the hotel, but in a quiet cottage a hundred yards up the hill.' Paula, who had heard all, did not show or say what she felt at the news: but after breakfast, on meeting the landlady in a passage alone, she asked with some anxiety if there were a really skilful medical man in Etretat; and on being told that there was, and his name, she went back to look for Mr.Somerset; but he had gone.
They heard nothing more of young Somerset all that morning, but towards evening, while Paula sat at her window, looking over the heads of fuchsias upon the promenade beyond, she saw the painter walk by.

She immediately went to her aunt and begged her to go out and ask Mr.
Somerset if his son had improved.
'I will send Milly or Clementine,' said Mrs.Goodman.
'I wish you would see him yourself.' 'He has gone on.

I shall never find him.' 'He has only gone round to the front,' persisted Paula.