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Chapter 16 In The Twilight
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If Sylvia needed another trial to make that hard week harder, it soon came to her in the knowledge that Warwick watched her. She well knew why, and vainly endeavored to conceal1 from him that which she had succeeded in concealing2 entirely3 from others. But he possessed4 the key to her variable moods; he alone knew that now painful forethought, not caprice dictated5 many of her seeming whims6, and ruled her simplest action. To others she appeared busy, gay, and full of interest in all about her; to him, the industry was a preventive of forbidden thoughts; the gayety a daily endeavor to forget; the interest, an anxiety concerning the looks and words of her companions, because she must guard her own.
Sylvia felt something like terror in the presence of this penetrating7 eye, this daring will, for the vigilance was unflagging and unobtrusive, and with all her efforts she could not read his heart as she felt her own was being read. Adam could act no part, but bent8 on learning the truth for the sake of all, he surmounted9 the dangers of the situation by no artifice10, no rash indulgence, but by simply shunning11 solitary12 interviews with Sylvia as carefully as the courtesy due his hostess would allow. In walks and drives, and general conversation, he bore his part, surprising and delighting those who knew him best by the
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