They all do sooner or later, especially these clever men.

The women flatter them, that's it.

Of course the girl is trying to get hold of him, and she might do worse, but so surely as my name is Honoria Bingham I will put a spoke in her wheel before she has done.

Bah! and they laugh at the power of women when a man like Geoffrey, with all the world to lose, grows love-sick for a pretty face; it is a _very_ pretty face by the way.

I do believe that if I were out of the way he would marry her.