He was beginning to think that Engleton was scarcely as pleasant a fellow as he had thought him.
"Well," he said, "Miss Le Mesurier will find out in time who are really her friends." "It is a safe plan," Major Forrest remarked, "and a pleasant one, to believe in everybody until they want something from you.

Then is the time for distrust." Jeanne sighed.
"And by that time, perhaps," she said, "one's affections are hopelessly engaged.

I think that it is a very difficult world." The Princess shrugged her shoulders.
"Three months," she remarked, "is not a long time.

Wait, my dear child, until you have at least lived through a single season before you commit yourself to any final opinions." Their host intervened.

He was beginning to find the conversation dull.
He was far more interested in another matter.
"Let us talk about that visit," he said to the Princess.