Latterly, even Colin was warned by her nervous restlessness.

When they were alone together, which was not long, nor often, her body seemed never still, her tongue rarely at rest.

Sometimes her talk was brilliantly allusive; at others it was frothy chatter.

One day it really irritated him.

She had been fluttering about the sitting-room opening on to the terrace, which Lady Tallant had made over to her guest.