Page:The Golden Bowl (Scribner, New York, 1909), Volume 2.djvu/262

THE GOLDEN BOWL the absent members of their party, had reached the open door at the end of the room and flagrantly stopped short in presence of the demonstration that awaited them. Her husband and her father were in front, and Charlotte's embrace of her—which wasn't to be distinguished for them either, she felt, from her embrace of Charlotte—took on with their arrival a high publicity.