"What a delicious idea for a toilet! To make it complete, there is the silver dagger, you see, stuck into my hair.

But here comes Lord Deepmere," she added in a moment.

"I must find out what he thinks of it." Lord Deepmere came up, looking very red in the face, and laughing.

"Lord Deepmere can't decide which he prefers, my sister-in-law or me," said Madame de Bellegarde.
"He likes Claire because she is his cousin, and me because I am not.
But he has no right to make love to Claire, whereas I am perfectly disponible.

It is very wrong to make love to a woman who is engaged, but it is very wrong not to make love to a woman who is married." "Oh, it's very jolly making love to married women," said Lord Deepmere, "because they can't ask you to marry them." "Is that what the others do, the spinsters ?" Newman inquired.
"Oh dear, yes," said Lord Deepmere; "in England all the girls ask a fellow to marry them." "And a fellow brutally refuses," said Madame de Bellegarde.
"Why, really, you know, a fellow can't marry any girl that asks him," said his lordship.
"Your cousin won't ask you.