You have to look to your future.
He didn't look to be in a mood for questions, so she hurried past him to her room, Pierre trailing.
He said nothing more and she didn't look to see the expression on his face before she left the house.
Some of those zoologists who look to Peripatus, or a similar worm-like form, as representing the direct ancestors of the Hexapoda have laid stress on a larva like the caterpillar of a moth or saw-fly as representing a primitive stage.
The only person who can keep him away is Edith herself and it doesn't look to me as if she has the sense to do so.