He had not appeared in the least pleased to find her there on his arrival, and from that moment onward the conversation had become distinctly laboured.
She wished very much that Miss de Gervais had not pressed her to stay when he came, and at the first opportunity she rose to go.

This time, Adrienne made no effort to detain her, although she asked her cordially to come again another day.
As Diana drove back in a taxi to Brutton Square she was conscious of a queer sense of disappointment in the outcome of her meeting with Max Errington.

It had been so utterly different from anything she had expected--quite commonplace and ordinary, exactly as though they had been no more than the most casual acquaintances.
She hardly knew what she had actually anticipated.

Certainly, she told herself irritably, she could not have expected him to have treated her with marked warmth of manner in the presence of others, and therefore his behaviour had been just what the circumstances demanded.

But, notwithstanding the assurance she gave herself that this was the common-sense view to take of the matter, she had an instinctive feeling that, even had there been no one else to consider, Errington's manner would still have shown no greater cordiality.