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Now although , in the light of her apparent affection for her aged husband , she ought , one would have thought , to be exceedingly happy over this , it was distinctly noticeable that she was nervous and ill at ease , that there was a hunted look in her eyes , and that , as the day wore on , these things seemed to be accentuated . More than that , there seemed added proof of the truth of young Bawdrey 's assertion that she and Captain Travers were in league with each other , for that day they were constantly together , constantly getting off into out-of-the-way places , and constantly talking in an undertone of something that seemed to worry them . Even when dinner was over , and the whole party adjourned to the drawing-room for coffee , and the lady ought , in all conscience , to have given herself wholly up to the entertainment of her guests it was observable that she devoted most of her time to whispered confidences with Captain Travers , that they kept going to the window and looking up at the sky , as if worried and annoyed that the twilight should be so long in fading and the night in coming on . But worse than this , at ten o'clock Captain Travers made an excuse of having letters to write , and left the room , and it was scarcely six minutes later that she followed suit . But the Captain had not gone to write letters , as it had happened . Instead , he had gone straight to the morning-room , an apartment immediately behind that in which the elder Mr. Bawdrey 's collection was housed , and from which a broad French window opened out upon the grounds , and it might have caused a scandal had it been known that Mrs. Bawdrey joined him there one minute after leaving the drawing-room . `` It is the time , Walter , it is the time ! ''