Three steps up she turned again and gazed down upon him.

Her cheeks were once more flushed and her dark eyes blazing.
"It's going to be just as I said!" she flung at him.

"I'm going to succeed--you're going to fail! You just wait and see!" She turned and ran swiftly up the stairway and out of sight.

Neither of them had been aware that the Duchess, a drab figure merged into a drab background, had regarded them fixedly during all this scene.

And Larry was still unconscious that the old eyes were now watching him with their deep-set, expressionless fixity.
Motionless, Larry stood gazing at where Maggie had been.