But on recognizing the long-forgotten Smilash, she had been astonished, and had not known what to do.

So, to avoid doing anything improper, she had stood stilly silent and done nothing, as the custom of English ladies in such cases is.

Subsequently, his unconscious self-assertion had wrought with her as with the others, and her intention of snubbing him had faded into the limbo of projects abandoned without trial.

Erskine alone was free from the influence of the intruder.

He wished himself elsewhere; but beside Gertrude the presence or absence of any other person troubled him very little.
"How are the Janseniuses ?" said Trefusis, suddenly turning to Agatha.
"They are quite well, thank you," she said in measured tones.
"I met John Jansenius in the city lately.