CHAPTER XIV.
THE ZOUAVE OFFICER.
Whatever trouble Ethel had experienced at Naples from her conviction that Hawbury was false was increased and, if possible, intensified by the discovery that he had followed them to Rome.

His true motives for this could not possibly be known to her, so she, of course, concluded that it was his infatuation for Minnie, and his determination to win her for himself.

She felt confident that he knew that she belonged to the party, but was so utterly indifferent to her that he completely ignored her, and had not sufficient interest in her to ask the commonest question about her.

All this, of course, only confirmed her previous opinion, and it also deepened her melancholy.

One additional effect it also had, and that was to deprive her of any pleasure that might be had from drives about Rome.