CHAPTER VII.
After this, for several days Mrs.Howard made it rather difficult for Lord Fordyce to speak to her alone, although he saw her every day, and at every meal, and each hour grew more enamored.

She, for her part, was certainly growing to like him.

He soothed her; his intelligence was highly trained, and he was courteous and gentle and sympathetic--but for some reason which she could not explain, she had no wish to precipitate matters.

Her mind was quite without any definite desire or determination, but, being a woman, she was perfectly aware that Henry was falling in love with her.

A number of other men had done so before, and had then at once begun to be uninteresting in her eyes.