Chapter 27

An uncomfortable idea was put into her head: what did Sebastian think of it all? Julia Levison put the idea there, for besides being one of Sylvia’s dearest friends she was also well known as owning the sharpest claws in London. Sylvia was disturbed, although she did not betray it. What _did_ Sebastian think? Hitherto the question had not existed for her. “Is it possible,” she thought, “that I don’t know what he is really like?” and Sebastian, with his charm, and his _chic_, and his extravagance, was suddenly prese…