Also he was curious; he wished to see if there was any bottom to such a woman's desire for luxury, if it would not bring satiety with it.

But Lady Honoria was a very bad subject for such an experiment.

She never showed the least sign of being satiated, either with fine things, with pleasures, or with social delights.

They were her natural element, and he might as soon have expected a fish to weary of the water, or an eagle of the rushing air.
The winter wore away and the spring came.

One day, it was in April, Geoffrey, who was a moderate Liberal by persuasion, casually announced at dinner that he was going to stand for Parliament in the Unionist interest.