He was made for the post of secretary! The young man's good looks would be out of harm's way then.

If any sprig of womankind come across him there, it will, at any rate, not be a girl.
Women must take care of themselves.

Only the fools among them run to mischief in the case of a handsome young fellow.
Supposing a certain woman to be one of the fools?
Lady Charlotte merely suggested it in the dashing current of her meditations--did not strike it out interrogatively.

The woman would be a fine specimen among her class; that was all.

For the favourite of Lord Ormont to stoop from her place beside him--ay, but women do; heroes have had the woeful experience of that fact.