And Tristram said absently, "Where ?" "In the waiting-room at Waterloo station--and yet--no, it could not have been she, because she was quite ordinarily dressed, and she was talking very interestedly to a foreign man." She watched Tristram's face and saw she had hit home for some reason; so she went on, enchanted: "Of course it could not have been she, naturally; but the type is so peculiar that any other like it would remind one, would it not ?" "I expect so," he said.

"It could not have been Zara, though, because she was in Paris until just before the wedding." "I remember the occasion quite well.

It was the day after the engagement was announced, because I had been up for Flora's wedding, and was going down into the country." Then in a flash it came to him that that was the very day he himself had seen Zara in Whitehall, the day when she had not gone to Paris.

And rankling, uncomfortable suspicions overcame him again.
Laura felt delighted.

She did not know why he should be moved at her announcement; but he certainly was, so it was worth while rubbing it in.
"Has she a sister, perhaps?
Because--now I come to think of it--the resemblance is extraordinary.