'I ought to apologise for making a lady's face a study; but need I say how deeply yours interested me?'
He was bending over her chair now in perfect confidence. He thought he had her in his power, and felt
'How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done.'
Not that he thought there was much harm in 'levanting with old Cadbury's girl;' it seemed rather a joke, in fact!
'Won't you take off your hat and sealskin before Lord Cadbury comes?' he urged, in a low voice.
'No—excuse me; and I shall not take them off after he does come.'
'Why so? Will you sup with them on?'
'Yes—or I don't want supper at all.'
'A deuced decided little party,' thought Sir Jasper, who never took his blasé eyes off her.
'Where can Lord Cadbury be?' she exclaimed, impatiently, after the waiter had gone twice in search of him in vain.