Good-bye." As he left the room, Lord Henry's heavy eyelids drooped, and he began to think.

Certainly few people had ever interested him so much as Dorian Gray, and yet the lad's mad adoration of some one else caused him not the slightest pang of annoyance or jealousy.

He was pleased by it.

It made him a more interesting study.

He had been always enthralled by the methods of natural science, but the ordinary subject-matter of that science had seemed to him trivial and of no import.