But not in the quality of son-in-law.

I should not have been obliged to marry.

And she would not now have such bad tobacco."....

He was on the point of lighting one of the Virginian cigarettes, a present from Maitland.

He threw it away, making a grimace with his air of a spoiled child, at the risk of scorching the rug which lay upon the marble floor; and he passed into the antechamber in order to fetch his own case in the pocket of the light overcoat he had prudently taken on coming out after eight o'clock.
As he lighted one of the cigarettes in that case, filled with so-called Egyptian tobacco, mixed with opium and saltpetre, which he preferred to the tobacco of the American, he mechanically glanced at the card which the servant had left on going from the room-the card of the unknown visitor for whom Madame Steno had left him.
Ardea read upon it, with astonishment, these words: Count Boleslas Gorka.
"She is better than I thought her," said he, on reentering the deserted office.