"I believe his father is very well-to-do; I have heard him spoken of as a man of private fortune." "Then our friend is independent--or at all events not pinched.

So much the better." Again Lady Ogram fell into musing; the countless wrinkles about her eyes, eloquent as wrinkles always are, indicated that her thoughts had no disagreeable tenor.
"Mr.Lashmar impresses you favourably ?" Constance at length ventured to ask.
Lady Ogram delayed her answer for a moment, then, speaking thickly in her tired voice, and with slow emphasis: "I'm glad to know him.

Beyond a doubt, he is the coming man.".