'I don't wish to see you, and you must please leave me alone. I'm busy.'
'Busy! Good Lord! What are you doing?'
'I'm packing,' she answered.
He waited a second, and then went downstairs again and sat down in the arm-chair.
'By Jove!' he exclaimed again. 'By—Jove!'
His thoughts were more eloquent. But a baffled Englishman is rarely very articulate.
CHAPTER XXXIV
Anne and Eugenia
'If you please, my lady, there's someone called to see you.'
Eugenia looked up in surprise. She was in the library, occupied in cataloguing Lord Selsey's books.