Mary was enchanted with this new vocabulary, and wanted to have every word explained to her; but Maulevrier confessed that there was a good deal that was unexplainable.
The evening was much livelier than those summer evenings when the dowager and Lady Lesbia were present.

There was something less of refinement, perhaps, and Fraeulein remonstrated now and then about some small violation of the unwritten laws of 'Anstand,' but there was more mirth.

Maulevrier felt for the first time as if he were master at Fellside.

They all went to the billiard room soon after dinner, and Fraeulein and Mary sat by the fire looking on, while the two young men played.

In such an evening there was no time for bitter memories: and John Hammond was surprised to find how little he had missed that enchantress whose absence had made the house seem desolate to him when he re-entered it.
He was tired with his journey and the varying emotions of the day, for it was not without strong emotion that he had consented to return to Fellside--and he slept soundly for the earlier part of the night.