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He looked again towards the two sailors,
suspecting their sleep. Then he got up quietly, and stepped out of the
boat onto the shore. His doing so gave a slight impetus to the boat,
which floated out a little way into the Pool. But the men in it seemed
to sleep on.
Artois stood still for a moment at the edge of the sea. His great
limbs were cramped, and he stretched them. Then he went slowly towards
the steps. He reached the plateau before the Casa del Mare. The
Marchesino was not there. He looked up at the house. As he did so the
front door opened and Hermione came out, wrapped in a white lace
shawl.
"Emile?" she said, stopping with her hand on the door. "Why--how
extraordinary!"
She came to him.
"Have you come to pay us a nocturnal visit, or--there's nothing the
matter?"
"No," he said.
For perhaps the first time in his life he felt embarrassed with
Hermione. He took her hand.
"I don't believe you meant me to know you were here," she said, guided
by the extraordinary intuition of woman.


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