It helped them, moreover, with strangers on either
side, little to talk; though this very restriction per
haps made such a mark for them as nothing else
could have done. If the fact that their opportunity
had again come round for them could be so in
tensely expressed between them without a word,
they might very well feel on the spot that it had
not come round for nothing. The extraordinary
part of the matter was that they were not in the
least meeting where they had left off, but ever so
much further on, and that these added links added
still another between High Street and Netting Hill
Gate, and then between the latter station and
Queen's Road an extension really inordinate. At
Netting Hill Gate, Kate's right-hand neighbour
descended, whereupon Densher popped straight
into that seat; only there was not much gained
when a lady, the next instant, popped into Den-
sher s. He could say almost nothing to her she
scarce knew, at least, what he said; she was so oc
cupied with a certainty that one of the persons
opposite, a youngish man with a single eyeglass,
which he kept constantly in position, had made her
out from the first as visibly, as strangely affected.
If such a person made her out, what then did
Densher do? a question in truth sufficiently an
swered when, on their reaching her station, he in
stantly followed her out of the train. That had
been the real beginning the beginning of every
thing else; the other time, the time at the party,

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