Haddington didn't believe she did.
"Go away ?" he said to himself.

"Hardly! The play is just beginning.
Little Lady Claudia wasn't far out." It is very possible she was not far out in her estimation of Mr.
Haddington's character, as well as in her forecast of his prospects.

But the fruits of her shrewdness on this point were happily hid from the gentleman concerned..