The more we have of them the darker the inference.

In delicate situations the chatterer is noxious.

Mrs.Warwick had numerous apologists.

Those trusting to her perfect rectitude were rarer.

The liberty she allowed herself in speech and action must have been trying to her defenders in a land like ours; for here, and able to throw its shadow on our giddy upper-circle, the rigour of the game of life, relaxed though it may sometimes appear, would satisfy the staidest whist-player.