Two days later, at noon, the card of Captain Gambier was brought to him in the billiard-room,--on it was written: "Miss Belloni waits on horseback to see you." Wilfrid thought "Waits!" and the impossibility of escape gave him a notion of her power.
"So, you are letting that go on," said Lady Charlotte, when she heard that Emilia and the captain were in company.
"There is no fear for her whatever." "There is always fear when a man gives every minute of his time to that kind of business," retorted her ladyship.
Wilfrid smiled the smile of the knowing.

Rivalry with Gambier (and successful too!) did not make Emilia's admiration so tasteless.

Some one cries out: "But, what a weak creature is this young man!" I reply, he was at a critical stage of his career.

All of us are weak in the period of growth, and are of small worth before the hour of trial.

This fellow had been fattening all his life on prosperity; the very best dish in the world; but it does not prove us.