CHAPTER XXX

THE LADY FROM BEYOND

The morning was sultry, brooding, steamy. Antonia was at her music, and from the room where Shelton tried to fix attention on a book he could hear her practising her scales with a cold fury that cast an added gloom upon his spirit. He did not see her until lunch, and then she again sat next the Connoisseur. Her cheeks were pale, but there was something feverish in her chatter to her neighbour; she still refused to look at Shelton. He felt very miserable. After lunch, when most of them had left the table, the rest fell to discussing country neighbours.

"Of course," said Mrs. Dennant, "there are the Foliots; but nobody calls on them."

"Ah!" said the Connoisseur, "the Foliots--the Foliots--the people--er--who--quite so!"

"It's really distressin'; she looks so sweet ridin' about. Many people with worse stories get called on," continued Mrs. Dennant, with that large frankness of intrusion upon doubtful subjects which may be made by certain people in a certain way, "but, after all, one couldn't ask them to meet anybody."

"No," the Connoisseur assented. "I used to know Foliot. Thousand pities. They say she was a very pretty woman."

"Oh, not pretty!" said Mrs. Dennant! "more interestin than pretty, I should say."

Shelton, who knew the lady slightly, noticed that they spoke of her as in the past. He did not look towards Antonia; for, though a little troubled at her presence while such a subject was discussed, he hated his conviction that her face, was as unruffled as though the Foliots had been a separate species. There was, in fact, a curiosity about her eyes, a faint impatience on her lips; she was rolling little crumbs of bread. Suddenly yawning, she muttered some remark, and rose. Shelton stopped her at the door.

Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:

1. what was Antonia doing in the beginning?
2. was someone listening?
3. who?
4. what he trying to so something else?
5. what?
6. on what?
7. what was she siting near?
8. did she have a sun tan?
9. what was her coloring?
10. who is the married girl?
11. was she talking with someone?
12. who?
13. what were they talking about?
14. did the married girl think they were good looking?
15. how did she think they looked?
1. her music
2. Yes
3. Shelton
4. Yes
5. to fix his attention
6. a book
7. the Connoisseur
8. No
9. she was pale
10. Mrs. Dennant
11. Yes
12. the Connoisseur
13. the Foliots
14. No
15. interestin