Still, opportunities of seeing her occasionally would, I knew,
present themselves, and I now determined to avail myself of these.
Panuel Lovell and some of the Boswells were not unfrequently in the
neighbourhood, and they were always accompanied by Sinfi and Videy.
II
On a certain occasion, when I learnt that the Lovells were in the
neighbourhood, I sought them out. Sinfi at first was extremely shy,
or distant, or proud, or scared, and it was not till after one or two
interviews that she relaxed. She still was overshadowed by some
mysterious feeling towards me that seemed at one moment anger, at
another dread. However, I succeeded at last. I persuaded Panuel and
his daughters to leave their friends at 'the Place,' and spend a few
days with me at the bungalow. Great was the gaping and wide the
grinning among the tourists to see me inarching along the Capel Curig
road with three Gypsies. But to all human opinion I had become as
indifferent as Wilderspin himself.
As we walked along the road, Sinfi slowly warmed into her old self,
but Videy, as usual, was silent, preoccupied, and meditative.
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