He had forbidden himself the future, as an object of contemplation, and it was therefore a matter of necessity that his imagination should take refuge among the warm and familiar episodes of the past.

He wondered why Mrs.Vivian should have left the place so suddenly, and was of course struck with the analogy between this incident and her abrupt departure from Baden.

It annoyed him, it troubled him, but it by no means rekindled the alarm he had felt on first perceiving the injured Angela on the beach.

That alarm had been quenched by Angela's manner during the hour that followed and during their short talk in the evening.

This evening was to be forever memorable, for it had brought with it the revelation which still, at moments, suddenly made Bernard tremble; but it had also brought him the assurance that Angela cared as little as possible for anything that a chance acquaintance might have said about her.