It is to be supposed that by this time his perception of the mutual relations of the young people who surrounded him had become more acute; but he still took the matter very seriously, and he was not at all exhilarated.
"Felix will make her a good husband," said Eugenia.

"He will be a charming companion; he has a great quality--indestructible gayety." "You think that 's a great quality ?" asked the old man.
Eugenia meditated, with her eyes upon his.

"You think one gets tired of it, eh ?" "I don't know that I am prepared to say that," said Mr.Wentworth.
"Well, we will say, then, that it is tiresome for others but delightful for one's self.

A woman's husband, you know, is supposed to be her second self; so that, for Felix and Gertrude, gayety will be a common property." "Gertrude was always very gay," said Mr.Wentworth.He was trying to follow this argument.
Robert Acton took his hands out of his pockets and came a little nearer to the Baroness.

"You say you gain by being known," he said.