If he could have known it it would have increased his perplexity and uneasiness although it would not have disturbed his loyalty in the least. He came twice a week to see Louisa Ellis and every time sitting there in her delicately sweet room he felt as if surrounded by a hedge of lace. He was afraid to clumsy foot or hand through the stir lest he should put a fairy web and he had always the consciousness that Louisa was watching fearfully lest he should.