CHAPTER III--SOAMES PREPARES TO TAKE STEPS 

When Soames entered his sister's little Louis Quinze drawing-room, with its small balcony, always flowered with hanging geraniums in the summer, and now with pots of Lilium Auratum, he was struck by the immutability of human affairs. It looked just the same as on his first visit to the newly married Darties twenty-one years ago. He had chosen the furniture himself, and so completely that no subsequent purchase had ever been able to change the room's atmosphere. Yes, he had founded his sister well, and she had wanted it. Indeed, it said a great deal for Winifred that after all this time with Dartie she remained well-founded. From the first Soames had nosed out Dartie's nature from underneath the plausibility, savoir faire, and good looks which had dazzled Winifred, her mother, and even James, to the extent of permitting the fellow to marry his daughter without bringing anything but shares of no value into settlement. 

Winifred, whom he noticed next to the furniture, was sitting at her Buhl bureau with a letter in her hand. She rose and came towards him. Tall as himself, strong in the cheekbones, well tailored, something in her face disturbed Soames. She crumpled the letter in her hand, but seemed to change her mind and held it out to him. He was her lawyer as well as her brother. 

Soames read, on Iseeum Club paper, these words: 

'You will not get chance to insult in my own again. I am leaving country to-morrow. It's played out. I'm tired of being insulted by you. You've brought on yourself. No self-respecting man can stand it. I shall not ask you for anything again. Good-bye. I took the photograph of the two girls. Give them my love. I don't care what your family say. It's all their doing. I'm going to live new life. 'M.D.' 
Who is Soames' sibling?
Who did she marry/
Was he nice looking?
who was impressed by it?
Anyone else
Who?
who is James?
Was Dartie poor?
What did Winifred decorate her balcony with?
What kind are out there now?
What about in July?
Where is Winifred when her brother finds her?
Is she holding something?
What?
What is it written on?
Who is her attorney?
How does their height compare?
How long has she been married?
Does Soames think she's happy?
Is she?
Louis Quinze
his sister's little Louis Quinze
Dartie
It looked just the same as on his first visit to the newly married Darties
yes
 and good looks which had dazzled Winifred
Winifred
dazzled Winifred
yes
 her mother, and even James
her mother and James
Winifred, her mother, and even James
her father
to the extent of permitting the fellow to marry his daughter
yes
 plausibility, savoir faire, and good looks which had dazzled Winifred, her mother, and even James, to the extent of permitting the fellow to marry his daughter without bringing anything but shares of no value into settlement
flowers
small balcony, always flowered with hanging geraniums in the summer, and now with pots of Lilium Auratum
Lilium Auratum
nd now with pots of Lilium Auratum
hanging geraniums
hanging geraniums in the summer,
sitting at her Buhl bureau
Winifred, whom he noticed next to the furniture, was sitting at her Buhl bureau with a letter in her hand
yes
was sitting at her Buhl bureau with a letter in her hand.
a letter
with a letter in her hand. 
Iseeum Club paper
Soames read, on Iseeum Club paper
her brother
her lawyer as well as her brother. 
the same
 Tall as himself
twenty-one years
newly married Darties twenty-one years ago.
yes
Yes, he had founded his sister well, and she had wanted it.
no
She crumpled the letter in her hand, but seemed to change her mind and held it out to him. 