They came simultaneously to the conclusion that if she had been alone she would have stamped, and stamped pretty hard.

Possibly also she would have said things to herself and the surrounding silence.

This seemed probable from the almost equally imperceptible motion of her shapely shoulders.
Mrs.Van Stuyler recognised in a moment that her charge was getting angry.

She knew by experience that Miss Zaidie possessed a very proper spirit of her own, and that it was just as well not to push matters too far.

She further recognised that the circumstances were extraordinary, not to say equivocal, and that she herself occupied a distinctly peculiar position.
She had accepted the charge of Miss Zaidie from her Uncle Russell for a consideration counted partly by social advantages and partly by dollars.
In the most perfect innocence she had permitted not only her charge but herself to be abducted--for, after all, that was what it came to--from the deck of an American liner, and carried, not only beyond the clouds, but also beyond the reach of human law, both criminal and conventional.
Inwardly she was simply fuming with rage.