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If Miss Ludington's desire for another glimpse of Ida had lacked the passionate intensity of Paul's, she had, notwithstanding, longed for it very ardently, and when at nine o'clock the next night the carriage drew up before Mrs. Legrand's door, she was in a transport of sweet anticipation.
As for Paul he had dressed himself with extreme care for the occasion, and looked to his best advantage. He had said to himself, "Shall I not show her as much observance as I would pay to a living woman? " And who can say -- for very odd, sometimes, are the inarticulate processes of the mind -- that there was not at the bottom of his thoughts something of the universal lover's willingness to let his mistress see him at his best?