She cut him deliberately as she passed into the hotel.
He was exceedingly angry; no human being had ever cut him before, and he flushed with mortification.

He walked down to the gardens pondering the affront; and his anger grew.

Then of a sudden it flashed on him that she had found out Mr.Arthur Courtnay, and that the warning he had given her had had something to do with that discovery.

She had cut him by way of showing her gratitude in a truly womanly fashion.

With the smile of an angel indulgent to human frailty he forgave her, and thrust the matter out of his mind.
That night at dinner, or rather at dessert, Lord Crosland informed them that he was engaged to Claire Wigram; and when they had done congratulating him, he told them that in a few days he would be leaving for England with the Wigrams.
"Well," said Sir Tancred, "the season here is coming to an end; and, at any rate, the weather for the last few days has been too hot to do these children any good.