Still, how else to account for Anna's disappearance, her sudden exit
from Lacville? Anna Wolsky was a proud woman, and Sylvia suspected that
if she had come unexpectedly to the end of her resources, she would have
preferred to go away rather than confide her trouble to a new friend.
Tears slowly filled Sylvia Bailey's blue eyes. She felt deeply hurt by
Anna's strange conduct.
Madame Wachner's warning as to saying as little as possible of the
other's departure from Lacville had made very little impression on
Sylvia, yet it so far affected her that, instead of telling Monsieur
Polperro of the fact the moment she was back at the Villa du Lac, she
went straight up to her own room. But when there she found that she could
settle down to nothing--neither to a book nor to letters.
Since her husband's death Sylvia Bailey's social circle had become much
larger, and there were a number of people who enjoyed inviting and
meeting the pretty, wealthy young widow. But just now all these friends
of hers in far-away England seemed quite unreal and, above all, quite
uninteresting.
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