I shouldn't have thought Lady Ogram would have had much attraction for him." Miss Bride laughed, a laugh of all but genuine gaiety.
"Hadn't we better talk about your programme ?" she resumed, in an altered voice, as though her humour had suddenly improved; "I should take counsel with Mr.Breakspeare, if I were you.

I fancy he likes to be consulted, and his activity will be none the less for it." Lashmar could not easily fix his thoughts on political tactics.

He talked impatiently, all the time absorbed in another subject; and at the first pause he took his leave.
Decidedly it offended him that he was left out from this evening's dinner-party.

A suspicion, too, had broken upon his mind which he found very distasteful and perturbing.

Lady Ogram must have particular reasons for thus cultivating Lord Dymchurch's acquaintance; conjecturing what they might be, he perceived how he had allowed himself to shape visions and dream dreams during the last day or two.
It was foolish, as he now saw plainly enough; in ambition, one must discern the probable, and steady one's course thereby.