'Perchance some unknown rival Has surprised and mastered thee?'
Meidanov bawled suddenly through his nose – and my eyes and Zinaida's met. She looked down and faintly blushed. I saw her blush, and grew cold with terror. I had been jealous before, but only at that instant the idea of her being in love flashed upon my mind. 'Good God! she is in love!'
Chapter X
My real torments began from that instant.
I racked my brains, changed my mind, and changed it back again, and kept an unremitting, though, as far as possible, secret watch on Zinaida.
A change had come over her, that was obvious.
She began going walks alone – and long walks.
Sometimes she would not see visitors; she would sit for hours together in her room.
This had never been a habit of hers till now.
I suddenly became – or fancied I had become – extraordinarily penetrating.