A Woman Engaged in a Love Affair With Beaufort

Beaufort knew all this and must have foreseen it. And his taking the long journey for so small a reward gave the measure of his impatience. He was undeniably in pursuit of the countess olenska. The question was whether she had fled because his inopportunities pleased her, or because she did not wholly trust herself to resist them. A woman engaged in a love affair with beaufort classed herself irretrievably. She threw in her lot with the vulgarest of dissemblers.