But there was no time for indecision.

The lady stood holding her glass and looking at him fixedly.

An instant and the struggle was over.

He turned to the table and filled another glass.

A smile and a bow, and then, a draught that sent the blood leaping along his veins with a hot and startled impulse.
Mrs.Abercrombie, who had entered the room a little while before, and was some distance from the place where her husband stood, felt at the moment a sudden chill and weight fall upon her heart.