Felix watched him a moment; then he turned away.

Acton could be left to play the part of Providence and interrupt--if interruption were needed--Clifford's entanglement with Eugenia.
Felix passed through the garden toward the house and toward a postern gate which opened upon a path leading across the fields, beside a little wood, to the lake.

He stopped and looked up at the house; his eyes rested more particularly upon a certain open window, on the shady side.
Presently Gertrude appeared there, looking out into the summer light.

He took off his hat to her and bade her good-day; he remarked that he was going to row across the pond, and begged that she would do him the honor to accompany him.

She looked at him a moment; then, without saying anything, she turned away.