This discipline having given him at least a superficial control of himself, he was about to turn and ask the waiter to bring the bill, when his eye was caught by a tall figure walking quickly along the opposite pavement--a tall figure, upright, dark, and commanding, much detached from her surroundings.

She held her gloves in her left hand, and the left hand was bare.

All this Ralph noticed and enumerated and recognized before he put a name to the whole--Katharine Hilbery.

She seemed to be looking for somebody.

Her eyes, in fact, scanned both sides of the street, and for one second were raised directly to the bow window in which Ralph stood; but she looked away again instantly without giving any sign that she had seen him.