She looked at him a little questioningly, but he met her eyes with his quiet and assured look.

When she danced with Arnault and other gentlemen he sought a partner in Madge or some other lady; and once, while they were walking on the piazza, and Miss Wildmere said, "You must have enjoyed yourself immensely with Miss Alden to have been out so long," he replied, "I did.

I hope you passed your time as agreeably." She saw that her relations with Arnault gave him an advantage and a freedom which he proposed to use--that she had no ground on which to find fault--and that he was too proud to permit censure for a course less open to criticism than her own.
Before she slept she thought long and deeply, at last concluding that perhaps affairs were taking the right turn for her purpose.

Graydon was tolerating as a disagreeable necessity what he regarded as her filial diplomacy with Arnault.

He was loyally and quietly waiting until this necessity should cease, and was so doing because he supposed it to be her wish.