Once or twice indeed she had felt disposed to tell Christopher that there was "someone else"; but nothing Gammon had said fully justified this, and Polly, though an emotional young woman, had a good deal of prudence.

One thing was certain, she very much desired to bring her old enemy to the point of a declaration.

How she would receive it when it came she could not wholly determine.
Her conjecture regarding the unknown lady was justified.

Among the first who entered the stalls was a man whom Polly seemed to remember, and close behind him came first a younger lady, then the one for whom her eyes had searched night after night.

In supplying them with programmes Polly observed and listened with feverish attention.