Chapter 6
A quick arrested expression in her two sapphirine eyes, accompanied by a little, a very little, blush which loitered long, was all the outward disturbance that the sight of her lover caused. The habit of self-repression at any new emotional impact was instinctive with her always. Somerset could not say more than a word; he looked his intense solicitude, and Paula spoke.
She declared that this was an unexpected pleasure. Had he arranged to come on the tenth as she wished? How strange that they should meet thus!—and yet not strange—the world was so small.
Somerset said that he was coming on the very day she mentioned—that the appointment gave him infinite gratification, which was quite within the truth.
‘Come into this shop with me,’ said Paula, with good-humoured authoritative
