She had called several times, and on each occasion behaved so charmingly that Lilian was very ready to meet her advances.

Though on intellectual and personal grounds he could feel no objection to such an intimacy, Denzil began to fear that it might affect his popularity with some voters who would take the Liberal side if it did not commit them to social heresies.

This class is a very large one throughout England.

Mrs.Wade had never given occasion of grave scandal; she was even seen, with moderate regularity, at one or other of the churches; but many of the anti-Tory bourgeois suspected her of sympathy with views so very "advanced" as to be socially dangerous.

Already it had become known that she was on good terms with Quarrier and his wife.