after some months oftroubled drifting
There, however, the atmosphere had changed with theconditions. He could not say that she avoided him, or eventhat she was a shade less glad to see him; but she was besetby family duties and, as he thought, a little too readilyresigned to them. The Marquise de Chantelle, as Darrow soon perceived, had thesame mild formidableness […]

