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She told herself that she was mad to feel
like that; but when she thought of Emile and Vere talking of her
failure--of their secret combined action to keep from her the
knowledge of the effort of the child--that seemed just then to her a
successful rivalry concealed--she could not dismiss the feeling.
She dreaded to meet Emile and Vere.
"I wonder where they are," she said, as she got out. "Perhaps they are
on the cliff, or out in the little boat. I'll go into the house."
"Signora, I will go to the seat and see if they are there."
"Oh, don't bother--" she began.
But he ran off, springing up the steps with a strong agility, like
that of a boy.
She hurried after him and went into the house. After what he had said
in the boat she wished to look at herself in the glass, to see if
there was anything strange or painful, anything that might rouse
surprise, in her appearance. She gained her bedroom, and went at once
to the mirror.
Hermione was not by nature at all a self-conscious woman.


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