But he was no less quick to perceive the opportunities which the circumstances afforded him to further a certain deep intrigue upon which he was engaged.
Therefore he did not take his leave just yet.

He sauntered with Lady O'Moy on the terrace above the wooded slopes that screened the village of Alcantara, and there discovered her mind to be even more frivolous and unstable than his perspicuity had hitherto suspected.

Under stress Lady O'Moy could convey the sense that she felt deeply.

She could be almost theatrical in her displays of emotion.

But these were as transient as they were intense.