It seemed to Robert Acton, after Eugenia had come to his house, that something had passed between them which made them a good deal more intimate.

It was hard to say exactly what, except her telling him that she had taken her resolution with regard to the Prince Adolf; for Madame Munster's visit had made no difference in their relations.

He came to see her very often; but he had come to see her very often before.

It was agreeable to him to find himself in her little drawing-room; but this was not a new discovery.

There was a change, however, in this sense: that if the Baroness had been a great deal in Acton's thoughts before, she was now never out of them.