But he was gravely polite and uncommunicative.

And after dessert the two ladies asked permission to retire.

They lay long awake afterwards, debating in whispers what terror might be in store for them.

Mrs.Warren cried a good deal and lamented futilely her indolent languor of a few days previously.

_Why_ had she not, while there was yet time, cleared out of Brussels, gone to Holland, and thence regained England with Vivie, and from England the south of France?
Vivie, more stoical, pointed out it was no use crying over lost opportunities.