You would hardly believe--" she gave him a confidential look--"that this is my first season in London." "Indeed it isn't easy to believe," said Dyce, in the tone of compliment.
"I always thought of a London season," pursued May, "as mere frivolity.
Of course there is a great deal of that.

But here one sees only cultured and serious people; it makes one feel how much hope there is for the world, in spite of everything.

The common Socialists talk dreadful nonsense about Society; of course it's mere ignorance." "To be sure," Lashmar assented, with inward mirth.

"Their views are inevitably so narrow .-- How long do you stay in town ?" "I'm afraid my aunt's health will oblige me to return to Rivenoak very soon.

She has been seeing doctors.