I suppose he is always in clever society ?" "I suppose so." "And why doesn't he invite you to London, and take you to see people ?" "Oh, he knows me better than that!" replied Ivy, with a laugh.
Whilst the girls talked thus, Eustace Glazzard and his brother were also in confidential chat.

They had gone to the library and made themselves comfortable with cigars--a cellaret and glasses standing within reach.

The rooms at Highmead gave evidence of neglect.

Guests were seldom entertained; the servants were few, and not well looked after.
"She has, I dare say, thirty thousand," William Glazzard was saying, with an air of indifference.

"I suppose she'll marry some parson.