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911
“
You
didn
’
t
disturb
me
,
”
Anna
answered
.
Darrow
perceived
that
she
was
looking
intently
at
the
girl
,
as
though
struck
by
something
tense
and
tremulous
in
her
face
,
her
voice
,
her
whole
mien
and
attitude
.
“
You
do
look
tired
912
You
’
d
much
better
go
straight
to
bed
.
Effie
won
’
t
be
sorry
to
skip
her
Latin
.
”
913
“
Thank
you
—
but
I
’
m
really
all
right
,
”
murmured
Sophy
Viner
.
Her
glance
,
making
a
swift
circuit
of
the
room
,
dwelt
for
an
appreciable
instant
on
the
intimate
propinquity
of
arm
-
chair
and
sofa
-
corner
;
then
she
turned
back
to
the
door
.
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914
At
dinner
that
evening
Madame
de
Chantelle
’
s
slender
monologue
was
thrown
out
over
gulfs
of
silence
.
Owen
was
still
in
the
same
state
of
moody
abstraction
as
when
Darrow
had
left
him
at
the
piano
;
and
even
Anna
’
s
face
,
to
her
friend
’
s
vigilant
eye
,
revealed
not
,
perhaps
,
a
personal
preoccupation
,
but
a
vague
sense
of
impending
disturbance
.
915
She
smiled
,
she
bore
a
part
in
the
talk
,
her
eyes
dwelt
on
Darrow
’
s
with
their
usual
deep
reliance
;
but
beneath
the
surface
of
her
serenity
his
tense
perceptions
detected
a
hidden
stir
.
916
He
was
sufficiently
self
-
possessed
to
tell
himself
that
it
was
doubtless
due
to
causes
with
which
he
was
not
directly
concerned
.
He
knew
the
question
of
Owen
’
s
marriage
was
soon
to
be
raised
,
and
the
abrupt
alteration
in
the
young
man
’
s
mood
made
it
seem
probable
that
he
was
himself
the
centre
of
the
atmospheric
disturbance
.
For
a
moment
it
occurred
to
Darrow
that
Anna
might
have
employed
her
afternoon
in
preparing
Madame
de
Chantelle
for
her
grandson
’
s
impending
announcement
;
but
a
glance
at
the
elder
lady
’
s
unclouded
brow
showed
that
he
must
seek
elsewhere
the
clue
to
Owen
’
s
taciturnity
and
his
step
-
mother
’
s
concern
.
Possibly
Anna
had
found
reason
to
change
her
own
attitude
in
the
matter
,
and
had
made
the
change
known
to
Owen
.
But
this
,
again
,
was
negatived
by
the
fact
that
,
during
the
afternoon
’
s
shooting
,
young
Leath
had
been
in
a
mood
of
almost
extravagant
expansiveness
,
and
that
,
from
the
moment
of
his
late
return
to
the
house
till
just
before
dinner
,
there
had
been
,
to
Darrow
’
s
certain
knowledge
,
no
possibility
of
a
private
talk
between
himself
and
his
step
-
mother
.
917
This
obscured
,
if
it
narrowed
,
the
field
of
conjecture
;
and
Darrow
’
s
gropings
threw
him
back
on
the
conclusion
that
he
was
probably
reading
too
much
significance
into
the
moods
of
a
lad
he
hardly
knew
,
and
who
had
been
described
to
him
as
subject
to
sudden
changes
of
humour
.
As
to
Anna
’
s
fancied
perturbation
,
it
might
simply
be
due
to
the
fact
that
she
had
decided
to
plead
Owen
’
s
cause
the
next
day
,
and
had
perhaps
already
had
a
glimpse
of
the
difficulties
awaiting
her
.
But
Darrow
knew
that
he
was
too
deep
in
his
own
perplexities
to
judge
the
mental
state
of
those
about
him
.
It
might
be
,
after
all
,
that
the
variations
he
felt
in
the
currents
of
communication
were
caused
by
his
own
inward
tremor
.
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918
Such
,
at
any
rate
,
was
the
conclusion
he
had
reached
when
,
shortly
after
the
two
ladies
left
the
drawing
-
room
,
he
bade
Owen
good
-
night
and
went
up
to
his
room
.
Ever
since
the
rapid
self
-
colloquy
which
had
followed
on
his
first
sight
of
Sophy
Viner
,
he
had
known
there
were
other
questions
to
be
faced
behind
the
one
immediately
confronting
him
.
On
the
score
of
that
one
,
at
least
,
his
mind
,
if
not
easy
,
was
relieved
.
He
had
done
what
was
possible
to
reassure
the
girl
,
and
she
had
apparently
recognized
the
sincerity
of
his
intention
.
He
had
patched
up
as
decent
a
conclusion
as
he
could
to
an
incident
that
should
obviously
have
had
no
sequel
;
but
he
had
known
all
along
that
with
the
securing
of
Miss
Viner
’
s
peace
of
mind
only
a
part
of
his
obligation
was
discharged
,
and
that
with
that
part
his
remaining
duty
was
in
conflict
.
919
It
had
been
his
first
business
to
convince
the
girl
that
their
secret
was
safe
with
him
;
but
it
was
far
from
easy
to
square
this
with
the
equally
urgent
obligation
of
safe
-
guarding
Anna
’
s
responsibility
toward
her
child
.
Darrow
was
not
much
afraid
of
accidental
disclosures
.
Both
he
and
Sophy
Viner
had
too
much
at
stake
not
to
be
on
their
guard
.
The
fear
that
beset
him
was
of
another
kind
,
and
had
a
profounder
source
.
He
wanted
to
do
all
he
could
for
the
girl
,
but
the
fact
of
having
had
to
urge
Anna
to
confide
Effie
to
her
was
peculiarly
repugnant
to
him
.
His
own
ideas
about
Sophy
Viner
were
too
mixed
and
indeterminate
for
him
not
to
feel
the
risk
of
such
an
experiment
;
yet
he
found
himself
in
the
intolerable
position
of
appearing
to
press
it
on
the
woman
he
desired
above
all
others
to
protect
.
.
.
920
Till
late
in
the
night
his
thoughts
revolved
in
a
turmoil
of
indecision
.
His
pride
was
humbled
by
the
discrepancy
between
what
Sophy
Viner
had
been
to
him
and
what
he
had
thought
of
her
.
This
discrepancy
,
which
at
the
time
had
seemed
to
simplify
the
incident
,
now
turned
out
to
be
its
most
galling
complication
.
The
bare
truth
,
indeed
,
was
that
he
had
hardly
thought
of
her
at
all
,
either
at
the
time
or
since
,
and
that
he
was
ashamed
to
base
his
judgement
of
her
on
his
meagre
memory
of
their
adventure
.