But she had an almost instant doubt of his caring for her as he had done, of his feeling the same tenderness in the same degree.

She watched him well.

It was a clear thing he was less in love than he had been.

Absence, with the conviction probably of her indifference, had produced this very natural and very desirable effect.
He was in high spirits; as ready to talk and laugh as ever, and seemed delighted to speak of his former visit, and recur to old stories: and he was not without agitation.

It was not in his calmness that she read his comparative difference.