"Oh dear, no, Adrian is much too selfish to marry." "I thought that selfishness was one of the elements of successful marriages.

I've been told so." A curious look stole into her eyes.

All at once she wondered if his words had any hidden meaning, and she felt angrily self-conscious; but she instantly put the reflection away, for if ever any man travelled by the straight Roman road of speech and thought, it was he.

He had only been dealing in somewhat obvious worldly wisdom.
"You ought not to give encouragement to such ideas by repeating them," she rejoined with raillery.

"This is an age of telepathy and suggestion, and the more silent we are the safer we are.