Once she was tempted to tell Glenn.

But that would only cause a fight, so she kept her counsel.

She danced again, and helped Flo entertain her guests, and passed that door often; and once stood before it, deliberately, with all the strange and contrary impulse so inscrutable in a woman, and never for a moment wholly lost the sense of the man's boldness.

It dawned upon her, at length, that the singular thing about this boldness was its difference from any, which had ever before affronted her.

The fool's smile meant that he thought she saw his attention, and, understanding it perfectly, had secret delight in it.