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There
was
time
for
another
look
at
the
station
;
but
the
look
again
resulted
in
disappointment
,
since
her
trunk
was
nowhere
to
be
found
in
the
huge
heap
disgorged
by
the
newly
-
arrived
London
express
.
The
fact
caused
Miss
Viner
a
moment
’
s
perturbation
;
but
she
promptly
adjusted
herself
to
the
necessity
of
proceeding
on
her
journey
,
and
her
decision
confirmed
Darrow
’
s
vague
resolve
to
go
to
Paris
instead
of
retracing
his
way
to
London
.
Miss
Viner
seemed
cheered
at
the
prospect
of
his
company
,
and
sustained
by
his
offer
to
telegraph
to
Charing
Cross
for
the
missing
trunk
;
and
he
left
her
to
wait
in
the
fly
while
he
hastened
back
to
the
telegraph
office
.
The
enquiry
despatched
,
he
was
turning
away
from
the
desk
when
another
thought
struck
him
and
he
went
back
and
indited
a
message
to
his
servant
in
London
:
“
If
any
letters
with
French
post
-
mark
received
since
departure
forward
immediately
to
Terminus
Hotel
Gare
du
Nord
Paris
.
”
Then
he
rejoined
Miss
Viner
,
and
they
drove
off
through
the
rain
to
the
pier
.
Almost
as
soon
as
the
train
left
Calais
her
head
had
dropped
back
into
the
corner
,
and
she
had
fallen
asleep
.
Sitting
opposite
,
in
the
compartment
from
which
he
had
contrived
to
have
other
travellers
excluded
,
Darrow
looked
at
her
curiously
.
He
had
never
seen
a
face
that
changed
so
quickly
.
A
moment
since
it
had
danced
like
a
field
of
daisies
in
a
summer
breeze
;
now
,
under
the
pallid
oscillating
light
of
the
lamp
overhead
,
it
wore
the
hard
stamp
of
experience
,
as
of
a
soft
thing
chilled
into
shape
before
its
curves
had
rounded
:
and
it
moved
him
to
see
that
care
already
stole
upon
her
when
she
slept
.
The
story
she
had
imparted
to
him
in
the
wheezing
shaking
cabin
,
and
at
the
Calais
buffet
—
where
he
had
insisted
on
offering
her
the
dinner
she
had
missed
at
Mrs
.
Murrett
’
s
—
had
given
a
distincter
outline
to
her
figure
.
From
the
moment
of
entering
the
New
York
boarding
-
school
to
which
a
preoccupied
guardian
had
hastily
consigned
her
after
the
death
of
her
parents
,
she
had
found
herself
alone
in
a
busy
and
indifferent
world
.
Her
youthful
history
might
,
in
fact
,
have
been
summed
up
in
the
statement
that
everybody
had
been
too
busy
to
look
after
her
.
Her
guardian
,
a
drudge
in
a
big
banking
house
,
was
absorbed
by
“
the
office
”
;
the
guardian
’
s
wife
,
by
her
health
and
her
religion
;
and
an
elder
sister
,
Laura
,
married
,
unmarried
,
remarried
,
and
pursuing
,
through
all
these
alternating
phases
,
some
vaguely
“
artistic
"
ideal
on
which
the
guardian
and
his
wife
looked
askance
,
had
(
as
Darrow
conjectured
)
taken
their
disapproval
as
a
pretext
for
not
troubling
herself
about
poor
Sophy
,
to
whom
—
perhaps
for
this
reason
—
she
had
remained
the
incarnation
of
remote
romantic
possibilities
.
In
the
course
of
time
a
sudden
“
stroke
”
of
the
guardian
’
s
had
thrown
his
personal
affairs
into
a
state
of
confusion
from
which
—
after
his
widely
lamented
death
—
it
became
evident
that
it
would
not
be
possible
to
extricate
his
ward
’
s
inheritance
.
No
one
deplored
this
more
sincerely
than
his
widow
,
who
saw
in
it
one
more
proof
of
her
husband
’
s
life
having
been
sacrificed
to
the
innumerable
duties
imposed
on
him
,
and
who
could
hardly
—
but
for
the
counsels
of
religion
—
have
brought
herself
to
pardon
the
young
girl
for
her
indirect
share
in
hastening
his
end
.
Sophy
did
not
resent
this
point
of
view
.
She
was
really
much
sorrier
for
her
guardian
’
s
death
than
for
the
loss
of
her
insignificant
fortune
.
The
latter
had
represented
only
the
means
of
holding
her
in
bondage
,
and
its
disappearance
was
the
occasion
of
her
immediate
plunge
into
the
wide
bright
sea
of
life
surrounding
the
island
—
of
her
captivity
.
She
had
first
landed
—
thanks
to
the
intervention
of
the
ladies
who
had
directed
her
education
—
in
a
Fifth
Avenue
school
-
room
where
,
for
a
few
months
,
she
acted
as
a
buffer
between
three
autocratic
infants
and
their
bodyguard
of
nurses
and
teachers
.
The
too
-
pressing
attentions
of
their
father
’
s
valet
had
caused
her
to
fly
this
sheltered
spot
,
against
the
express
advice
of
her
educational
superiors
,
who
implied
that
,
in
their
own
case
,
refinement
and
self
-
respect
had
always
sufficed
to
keep
the
most
ungovernable
passions
at
bay
.
The
experience
of
the
guardian
’
s
widow
having
been
precisely
similar
,
and
the
deplorable
precedent
of
Laura
’
s
career
being
present
to
all
their
minds
,
none
of
these
ladies
felt
any
obligation
to
intervene
farther
in
Sophy
’
s
affairs
;
and
she
was
accordingly
left
to
her
own
resources
.
A
schoolmate
from
the
Rocky
Mountains
,
who
was
taking
her
father
and
mother
to
Europe
,
had
suggested
Sophy
’
s
accompanying
them
,
and
“
going
round
”
with
her
while
her
progenitors
,
in
the
care
of
the
courier
,
nursed
their
ailments
at
a
fashionable
bath
.
Darrow
gathered
that
the
“
going
round
”
with
Mamie
Hoke
was
a
varied
and
diverting
process
;
but
this
relatively
brilliant
phase
of
Sophy
’
s
career
was
cut
short
by
the
elopement
of
the
inconsiderate
Mamie
with
a
“
matinee
idol
”
who
had
followed
her
from
New
York
,
and
by
the
precipitate
return
of
her
parents
to
negotiate
for
the
repurchase
of
their
child
.
