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And why should Vere have drifted, Emile have drifted, if
there were not some link between them--some link between the child and
the middle-aged man which they would not have her know of?
Vere had told to Emile something that she had kept, that she still
kept from her mother. When Vere had been shut up in her room she had
not been reading. Emile knew what it was that she did during those
long hours when she was alone. Emile knew that, and perhaps other
things of Vere that she, Hermione, did not know, was not allowed to
know.
Hermione, in their long intimacy, had learned to read Artois more
clearly, more certainly than he realized. Although often impulsive,
and seemingly unconscious of the thoughts of others, she could be both
sharply observant and subtle, especially with those she loved. She had
noticed the difference between his manner when first they spoke of
Vere's hidden occupation and his manner when last they spoke of it. In
the interval he had found out what it was, and that it was not
reading.


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