Restless, discontented, visionary, without personal ambitions, but with a certain avidity of imagination, she was, as I have said before, eminently incomplete.

She was full--both for good and for ill--of beginnings that came to nothing; but she had nevertheless, morally, a spark of the sacred fire.
Newman was fond, under all circumstances, of the society of women, and now that he was out of his native element and deprived of his habitual interests, he turned to it for compensation.

He took a great fancy to Mrs.Tristram; she frankly repaid it, and after their first meeting he passed a great many hours in her drawing-room.

After two or three talks they were fast friends.

Newman's manner with women was peculiar, and it required some ingenuity on a lady's part to discover that he admired her.