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There he stopped , feeling afraid to turn round , and his eyes fixed themselves on the intricacies of the pattern before him . He heard Campbell bringing in the heavy chest , and the irons , and the other things that he had required for his dreadful work . He began to wonder if he and Basil Hallward had ever met , and , if so , what they had thought of each other . “ Leave me now , ” said a stern voice behind him . He turned and hurried out , just conscious that the dead man had been thrust back into the chair and that Campbell was gazing into a glistening yellow face . As he was going downstairs , he heard the key being turned in the lock . It was long after seven when Campbell came back into the library . He was pale , but absolutely calm . “ I have done what you asked me to do , ” he muttered . “ And now , good - bye . Let us never see each other again . ” “ You have saved me from ruin , Alan . I cannot forget that , ” said Dorian simply . As soon as Campbell had left , he went upstairs . There was a horrible smell of nitric acid in the room . But the thing that had been sitting at the table was gone . CHAPTER XV . That evening , at eight - thirty , exquisitely dressed and wearing a large button - hole of Parma violets , Dorian Gray was ushered into Lady Narborough’s drawing - room by bowing servants . His forehead was throbbing with maddened nerves , and he felt wildly excited , but his manner as he bent over his hostess’s hand was as easy and graceful as ever . Perhaps one never seems so much at one’s ease as when one has to play a part . Certainly no one looking at Dorian Gray that night could have believed that he had passed through a tragedy as horrible as any tragedy of our age . Those finely shaped fingers could never have clutched a knife for sin , nor those smiling lips have cried out on God and goodness . He himself could not help wondering at the calm of his demeanour , and for a moment felt keenly the terrible pleasure of a double life . It was a small party , got up rather in a hurry by Lady Narborough , who was a very clever woman with what Lord Henry used to describe as the remains of really remarkable ugliness . She had proved an excellent wife to one of our most tedious ambassadors , and having buried her husband properly in a marble mausoleum , which she had herself designed , and married off her daughters to some rich , rather elderly men , she devoted herself now to the pleasures of French fiction , French cookery , and French esprit when she could get it .
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