Then she asked in an injured tone: "Why shouldn't I have told
you if you'd 'ad callers, sir?"
"I thought you might have thought I was asleep."
"Indeed you were, sir, when I came in with the lamp--and well you'd
earned it, Mr. Wayworth!"
The landlady came back an hour later to bring him a telegram; it was
just as he had begun to dress to dine at his club and go down to the
theatre.
"See me to-night in front, and don't come near me till it's over."
It was in these words that Violet communicated her wishes for the
evening. He obeyed them to the letter; he watched her from the
depths of a box. He was in no position to say how she might have
struck him the night before, but what he saw during these charmed
hours filled him with admiration and gratitude. She WAS in it, this
time; she had pulled herself together, she had taken possession, she
was felicitous at every turn. Fresh from his revelation of Nona he
was in a position to judge, and as he judged he exulted. He was
thrilled and carried away, and he was moreover intensely curious to
know what had happened to her, by what unfathomable art she had
managed in a few hours to effect such a change of base.
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