Would she permit him to meet her and Miss Ringrose at Hampstead?
Without shadow of constraint or affectation, Eve replied that such a meeting would give her pleasure: she mentioned place and time at which they might conveniently encounter.
He walked with her all the way to the library, and attended her back to Gower Place.

The result of this conversation was merely to intensify the conflict of feelings which Eve had excited in him.

Her friendliness gave him no genuine satisfaction; her animated mood, in spite of the charm to which he submitted, disturbed him with mistrust.

Nothing she said sounded quite sincere, yet it was more difficult than ever to imagine that she played a part quite alien to her disposition.
No word had fallen from her which threw light upon her present circumstances, and he feared to ask any direct question.

It had surprised him to learn that she subscribed to Mudie's.