Loulou's attendant cavalier looked in surprise from her to him, and evidently thought the proceedings most extraordinary.

But before he had time to ask for an explanation, Wilhelm had turned on his heel and was walking rapidly back to the hotel.

The two Americans followed him in silence.

Nothing in the scene had escaped them, but as true Anglo-Saxons they had too much native reserve to ask for a confidence which was not offered them.
Wilhelm was most painfully affected by the encounter, and not for worlds would he risk the possibility of meeting again with the unfortunate woman and the man to whom she now was bound in sinful union.

That same day he took leave of his Americans, and left Ostend early the next morning; at once fearful and relieved, as though fleeing successfully from the scene of a dark deed of his own committing.
After a long and tiresome journey, not made pleasanter by having to change four or five times, he arrived late in the evening at Eu, where he spent the night.