She was silent and grave; she had a manner which took the edge from the wantonness of filial independence.

Yet, for all this, Bernard was pleased with his position; and, as he walked with her through the lighted and crowded rooms, where they soon detached themselves from their companions, he felt that peculiar satisfaction which best expresses itself in silence.

Angela looked a while at the rows of still, attentive faces, fixed upon the luminous green circle, across which little heaps of louis d'or were being pushed to and fro, and she continued to say nothing.

Then at last she exclaimed simply, "Come away!" They turned away and passed into another chamber, in which there was no gambling.

It was an immense apartment, apparently a ball-room; but at present it was quite unoccupied.