Do you intend, then, to remain with the company?
I have no choice, but you have the whole world." "Yet, my intense devotion to the art of the Thespian holds me captive." Their eyes met smilingly, and the next instant the door closed quietly between them.
Winston turned aside and entered the gloomy hotel office, feeling mentally unsettled, undetermined in regard to his future conduct.

Miss Norvell had proven frankly intimate, delightfully cordial, yet overshadowing it all there remained unquestionably a certain constraint about both words and actions which continued to perplex and tantalize.
She had something in her past life to conceal; she did not even pretend to deceive him in this regard, but rather held him off with deliberate coolness.

The very manner in which this had been accomplished merely served to stimulate his eagerness to penetrate the mystery of her reserve, and caused him to consider her henceforth as altogether differing from other girls.

She had become a problem, an enigma, which he would try to solve; and her peculiar nature, baffling, changeable, full of puzzling moods, served to fascinate his imagination, to invite his dreaming.

A strange thrill swept him when he caught a fleeting glimpse of white skirt and well-turned ankle as she ran swiftly up the steep staircase, yet, almost at the same instant, he returned to earth with a sudden shock, facing Mooney, when the latter turned slowly away from the window and sneeringly confronted him.