There was no one to be seen in the great hall. It began to rain, a cold sweat of precipitation that was more sickly than refreshing. For the present, he murmured his farewells, and turning, caught Hilary’s eye and walked away, crossing the ballroom to move into the less opulent, and less crowded, saloon next door where servants were dispensing refreshments. She didn’t like the shops, she didn’t like the other women’s faces; she thought the smirking men in frock-coats who dominated these establishments the most intolerable persons she had ever had to face. But days had now passed. He could talk to her as frankly as he could to a man, that she would not take offence at anything so long as it was in the form of explanation. In nearly every speech she heard was the same implication of great and necessary changes in the world—changes to be won by effort and sacrifice indeed, but surely to be won. CHAPTER IV. The clanking of chains, the grating of locks, and the rumbling of bolts must have been music in Jonathan's ears, so much pains did he take to subject himself to such sounds. He perceived, however, that both the novels he read and the world he lived in discountenanced these assumptions. And if the woman is not a rival, she must be—yes, that must be it. And, setting down the link, he proceeded deliberately to untie his cravat. When she finished her last cadence, Carolyn and Thomas begged her to play encores.
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