I must find it, however.

Excuse me, I will be back immediately." His sudden departure from the room had been a mere matter of calculation; for, guessing that an assignation had been planned, he thought that he might know what took place at it by a little eavesdropping.

He therefore applied first his ear and then his eye to the keyhole, and by these means acquired all the information he desired.
A moment of privacy with the object of his affections seemed to Norbert an inestimable boon.

When Diana had first entered, he was horrified at the terrible alteration that had taken place in the expression of her face.

He seized her hand, which she made no effort to withdraw, and gazed fixedly into her eyes.
"Tell me," murmured he in accents of love and tenderness, "what it is that has gone wrong." Diana sighed, then a tear coursed slowly down her cheek.