O but she was a snubbed young woman last night! I refrain--the examples are too minute for quotation.
'A little later and he had vanished.

Carinthia Kirby may already be written Countess of Fleetwood! His hand was offered and hers demanded in plain terms.

Her brother would not be so astounded if he had seen the brilliant creature she was--is, I could say; for when she left me here, to go to her bed, she still wore the "afterglow." She tripped over to me in the ball-room to tell me.

I might doubt, she had no doubt whatever.
I fancied he had subjected her to some degree of trifling.

He was in a mood.