The change that came over his countenance, when he knew her, was a shadow of such mingled and conflicting shades that she felt there was something peculiar in it which she must attempt to analyze.

It remained hardly a moment to encounter question, but was almost immediately replaced with a politeness evidently false.

Then, first, she began to be aware of distrusting the man.
Asking a few questions about the business, to which he gave answers most satisfactory, she kept casting her eyes about the shop, unable to account for the impression the look of it made upon her.

Either her eyes had formed for themselves another scale, and could no more rightly judge between past and present, or the aspect of the place was different, and not so satisfactory.

Was there less in it?
she asked herself--or was it only not so well kept as when she left it?
She could not tell.