But Miss Garland was not looking at him; she had taken up her Murray again.
In the afternoon she usually drove with Mrs.Hudson, but Rowland frequently saw her again in the evening.

He was apt to spend half an hour in the little sitting-room at the hotel-pension on the slope of the Pincian, and Roderick, who dined regularly with his mother, was present on these occasions.

Rowland saw him little at other times, and for three weeks no observations passed between them on the subject of Mrs.
Hudson's advent.

To Rowland's vision, as the weeks elapsed, the benefits to proceed from the presence of the two ladies remained shrouded in mystery.

Roderick was peculiarly inscrutable.