"
She stared blankly at him, and it was clear that it was all as if it had
not been with her. He insisted, and then she said: "Perhaps I thought I
knew him, and was afraid I should hurt his feelings if I didn't
recognize him. But I don't remember it at all." The curves of her mouth
drooped, and her eyes grieved, so that her father had not the heart to
say more. She left them, and when he was alone with Lanfear he said:
"You see how it is!"
"Yes, I saw how it was before. But what do you wish to do?"
"Do you mean that he will keep it up?"
"Decidedly, he'll keep it up. He has every right to from his point of
view."
"Oh, well, then, my dear fellow, you must stop it, somehow. You'll know
how to do it."
"I?" said Lanfear, indignantly; but his vexation was not so great that
he did not feel a certain pleasure in fulfilling this strangest part of
his professional duty, when at the beginning of their next excursion he
put Miss Gerald into the victoria with her father and fell back to the
point at which he had seen the lieutenant waiting to haunt their farther
progress.
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