“How, strangely? What do you mean by that?”
“I scarcely know.”
“No; rather to be studying him.”
“You are of the opinion that she had seen him somewhere before?”
“Either that, or he was strangely and unaccountably like some person she had known.”
“Now you have said that she had not been exactly the same since that time. In what way was she different?”
“That is a difficult question to answer, for the reason that there was no difference which I could explain. There would have been no difference at all to any one less intimately associated with her than I was. But there was a difference.”
“Can you not give me some idea about it?”
“Only that after encountering him anywhere in the house or in the garden, she would appear, for a short interval, to be in a mood of abstraction.”