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           Thisobscured,ifitnarrowed,thefieldofconjecture;andDarrow’sgropingsthrewhimbackontheconclusionthathewasprobablyreadingtoomuchsignificanceintothemoodsofaladhehardlyknew,andwhohadbeendescribedtohimassubjecttosuddenchangesofhumour.AstoAnna’sfanciedperturbation,itmightsimplybeduetothefactthatshehaddecidedtopleadOwen’scausethenextday,andhadperhapsalreadyhadaglimpseofthedifficultiesawaitingher.ButDarrowknewthathewastoodeepinhisownperplexitiestojudgethementalstateofthoseabouthim.Itmightbe,afterall,thatthevariationshefeltinthecurrentsofcommunicationwerecausedbyhisowninwardtremor.

           Such,atanyrate,wastheconclusionhehadreachedwhen,shortlyafterthetwoladiesleftthedrawing-room,hebadeOwengood-nightandwentuptohisroom.Eversincetherapidself-colloquywhichhadfollowedonhisfirstsightofSophyViner,hehadknowntherewereotherquestionstobefacedbehindtheoneimmediatelyconfrontinghim.Onthescoreofthatone,atleast,hismind,ifnoteasy,wasrelieved.Hehaddonewhatwaspossibletoreassurethegirl,andshehadapparentlyrecognizedthesincerityofhisintention.Hehadpatchedupasdecentaconclusionashecouldtoanincidentthatshouldobviouslyhavehadnosequel;buthehadknownallalongthatwiththesecuringofMissViner’speaceofmindonlyapartofhisobligationwasdischarged,andthatwiththatparthisremainingdutywasinconflict.

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