I will relate briefly how it came about.
Upon a certain evening, a few days before Mary's return from Cornwall, Tom would have gone to see Miss Yolland had he not known that she meant to go to the play with a Mr.Emmet, a cousin of the Redmains.

Before the hour arrived, however, Count Galofta called, and Sepia went out with him, telling the man who opened the door to ask Mr.Emmet to wait.
The man was rather deaf, and did not catch with certainty the name she gave.

Mr.Emmet did not appear, and it was late before Sepia returned.
Tom, jealous even to hatred, spent the greater part of his evening in a tavern on the borders of the city--in gloomy solitude, drinking brandy-and-water, and building castles of the most foolish type--for castles are as different as the men that build them.

Through all the rooms of them glided the form of Sepia, his evil genius.

He grew more and more excited as he built, and as he drank.