3/25 His flow of spirits seemed to be checked at once, and his volubility ceased. He made only monosyllabic answers to Mrs.Willoughby's remarks, and his eyes kept wandering, over beyond her to Minnie, and scrutinizing the Italian who was thus monopolizing her at the very moment when he was beginning to have a "realizing sense" of her presence. He could not understand it at all. He felt that some wrong was done by somebody. |