His eyes attending her hither and thither without reserve, without concealment, unabashed, laid his heart at her feet, not once, but a hundred times in the evening; and as often, her endurance of the look, more rarely her sudden blush or smile, accepted the offering.
And scarce a word said: for though they had the room to themselves, they knew that they were never alone or unheeded.

Basterga, indeed, sat above stairs and only descended to his meals; and Grio also was above when he was not at the tavern.

But Louis sulked in his closet beside them, divided from them only by a door, whence he might emerge at any minute.
As a fact he would have emerged many times, but for two things.

The first was his marked face, which he was chary of showing; the second, the notion which he had got that the balance of things in the house was changing, and the reign of petty bullying, in which he had so much delighted, approaching its end.

With Basterga exposed to arrest, and the girl's help become of value to the authorities, it needed little acumen to discern this.