The soul relaxes; the senses reclaim their share of us.
Some men came rather rudely out from under the trees, and loitered near.
Perhaps all present, except Cameron, noticed them.

Alec did; and felt concerning them, he knew not why, uneasy suspicion.

He noticed other things now, although a few minutes before he had been insensible to all about him.

He saw that the lady he waited upon had dropped her face into her hands; he saw that her disdainful and independent mood was melted.
Strangely enough, his mind wandered back again to her first companion, and he wondered that she had not sent back for him or mourned his absence.

He was amazed now at his own assumption that design, not accident, had caused such desertion.