Otway did not immediately become aware of this.
"I think we missed each other only by an hour or two, when you brought Miss Derwent to Ewell.

That very day, curiously, I was lunching here." "Indeed ?" said Eustace, with a marble smile.
"Miss Derwent is here, I hope ?" pursued Piers; not with any offensive presumption, but speaking as he thought, rather impetuously.
"I believe Miss Derwent is in the room," was the answer, uttered with singular gravity and accompanied with a particularly freezing look.
This time, Piers could not but feel that Eustace Derwent was speaking oddly.

In his peculiar condition, however, he thought it only an amusing characteristic of the young man.

He smiled, and was about to continue the dialogue, when, with a slight, quick bow, the other turned away.
"Disagreeable fellow, that!" said Piers to himself.

"I hope the Doctor isn't like him.