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Wycherley is right; Aleck has recognized the cloaked figure. There is some undefinable quality about her carriage that betrays her -- a gliding movement, so totally unlike the action of an American. What adds power to the suspicion is the fact that she seems to follow the couple whose movements Aleck and his companion have been watching.
"I feel as though some sort of crisis were approaching, Claude. Now do you suppose she suspects what manner of face that veil hides? " he asks his friend.