When, a moment later, she noticed him going down the stairs, pale and alone, the unconcealed cruelty of indifference shone in her beautiful dark eyes.

The old love had fallen away from her like a useless garment, and had given place to the new.
This man was nothing to her, had no claims of any kind upon her now that she no longer loved him.

It is inconceivable how quickly a woman regains entire possession of her own heart once she has ceased to love a man.
'He has stolen her from me!' he thought to himself, as he made his way to the Jockey Club tent, and the grass seemed to give beneath his feet like sand.

At a little distance in front of him walked the other with a firm and elastic step.

In his long gray overcoat his tall and shapely figure had that peculiar and inimitable air of elegance which only breeding can give.