Each thing done by Louise, however, came from a personally and emotionally solicitous interest.

It was to be seen in the glance of the eye, in the voice a little unsteady, in girlish over-emphasis, in that shining something in the face, which, in Ireland, they call the love-light.
So great was Mrs.Guise's vanity, so intense her content in her son, so proud was she of other people's admiration of him, no matter who they were, that she welcomed Louise's attentions.

Kernaghan was wrong.
Mazarine had not forbidden Louise to enter Orlando's room.

That was the contradictory nature of the man.

His innate savagery made him brood wickedly over her natural housewifery attentions to the man who had probably saved his own life, and certainly had saved him six thousand dollars; yet it was as though he must see the worst that might happen, must even encourage a danger which he dreaded.