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`` Yes , '' he replied . `` I had n't anything particular to do to-night , and as I was sick of playing billiards and swopping lies with the other fellows at the Carlton , I just put on a hard-boiled shirt and the other things and came over here to seek my fortune . '' As he said this he looked straight at Carol , their eyes met for a moment , and then she coloured up swiftly and looked away . The four wound up the evening with a sumptuous supper at Prince 's , at which Rayburn played host to perfection , and within a week Carol and he had left Charing Cross by the eleven o'clock boat-train on a trip which had no particular objective , but which , as a matter of fact , extended round the world before Carol again saw her beloved London . In addition to her other rings she wore a new thick wedding ring , a compromise with conventionality which the etiquette of hotels and steamer saloons had rendered imperative , and thus it came to pass that Miss Carol , travelling as Mrs. Charles Redfern , vanished utterly for more than a year , and this , too , was why all the efforts of Vane and Ernshaw and Sir Arthur to find her had proved for the present unavailing . Enid Garthorne came back from a somewhat extended honeymoon trip to the Riviera and thence on through Northern Italy to Venice , whence she returned viâ Vienna and Paris , a very different woman from the Enid Raleigh who had cried so bitterly over that farewell letter of Vane 's in her bedroom at Oxford . She had already schooled herself to look upon her long love for Vane as , after all , only the sustained infatuation of a romantic school-girl , and upon him as a high-hearted , clean-souled but utterly impossible visionary who had sacrificed the substance for the shadow , and who , having chosen irrevocably , could only be left to work out his own destiny as he had shaped it .