"Perhaps she does not like being left so long alone." Tristram went upstairs with a bitter laugh to himself.
He did not go near the sitting-room; he went straight into the room which had been allotted to himself: and a savage sense of humiliation and impotent rage convulsed him.
The next day, the express which would stop for them at Tylling Green, the little station for Montfitchet, started at two o'clock, and the financier had given orders to have an early lunch at twelve before they left.

He, himself, went off to the City for half an hour to read his letters, at ten o'clock, and was surprised when he asked Turner if Lord and Lady Tancred had break-fasted to hear that her ladyship had gone out at half-past nine o'clock and that his lordship had given orders to his valet not to disturb him, in his lordship's room--and here Turner coughed--until half-past ten.
"See that they have everything they want," his master said, and then went out.

But when he was in his electric brougham, gliding eastwards, he frowned to himself.
"The proud, little minx! So she has insisted upon keeping to the business bargain up till now, has she!" he thought.

"If it goes on we shall have to make her jealous.

That would be an infallible remedy for her caprice." But Zara was not concerned with such things at all for the moment.