It was impossible to regard her as a perfectly well-conducted
young lady; she was wanting in a certain indispensable delicacy.
It would therefore simplify matters greatly to be able to treat
her as the object of one of those sentiments which are called by
romancers "lawless passions." That she should seem to wish to get rid
of him would help him to think more lightly of her, and to be able
to think more lightly of her would make her much less perplexing.
But Daisy, on this occasion, continued to present herself as an
inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence.
She had been walking some quarter of an hour, attended by her
two cavaliers, and responding in a tone of very childish gaiety,
as it seemed to Winterbourne, to the pretty speeches
of Mr. Giovanelli, when a carriage that had detached
itself from the revolving train drew up beside the path.
At the same moment Winterbourne perceived that his friend
Mrs. Walker--the lady whose house he had lately left--
was seated in the vehicle and was beckoning to him.
Leaving Miss Miller's side, he hastened to obey her summons.
Mrs. Walker was flushed; she wore an excited air.
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