But--and "pleasant society." What about that ?' 'Your society is pleasant enough, I hope,' answered Mumford, gracefully.

'And the Fentimans--' This was the only family with whom they were intimate at Sutton.
Nice people; a trifle sober, perhaps, and not in conspicuously flourishing circumstances; but perfectly presentable.
'I'm afraid--' murmured Emmeline, and stopped short.

'As you say,' she added presently, 'this is someone very well off.

"Terms not so much a consideration"-- ' 'Well, I tell you what--there can be no harm in dropping a note.

The kind of note that commits one to nothing, you know.