He employed some courtly eloquence, better unrecorded; but if her firm resolution perplexed him, it threw a strange halo round the youth from whom it sprang.
The hour was now eleven, and the Countess thought it full time to retire to her entrenchment in Mrs.Bonner's chamber.

She had great things still to do: vast designs were in her hand awaiting the sanction of Providence.

Alas! that little idle promenade was soon to be repented.
She had joined her sister, thinking it safer to have her upstairs till they were quit of Evan.

The Duke and the diplomatist loitering in the rear, these two fair women sailed across the lawn, conscious, doubtless, over all their sorrows and schemes, of the freight of beauty they carried.
What meant that gathering on the steps?
It was fortuitous, like everything destined to confound us.

There stood Lady Jocelyn with Andrew, fretting his pate.