Lady Belward did not come; Sir William brought them.

Lady Dargan came softly to him, smiled more with her eyes than her lips, and told him how sorry she had been to hear of his illness.

Some months before Gaston had met Cluny Vosse, who at once was his admirer.

Gaston liked the youth.

He was fresh, high-minded, extravagant, idle; but he had no vices, and no particular vanity save for his personal appearance.