'What do I hear?
I won't listen; I can't, I mustn't, I oughtn't.' So she said, but her head careened, she gave him her coy reluctant ear, with total abandonment to the seductions of his whispers, and the lord let fly a peal of laughter.

It had been a supper of copious wine, and the songs which rise from wine.

Nature was excused by our midnight naturalists.
The two great dames, admonished by the violence of the nobleman's laughter, laid claim on Mr.Beamish to accompany them at their parting with Chloe and Duchess Susan.
In the momentary shuffling of couples incident to adieux among a company, the duchess murmured to Caseldy: 'Have I done it well.' He praised her for perfection in her acting.

'I am at your door at three, remember.' 'My heart's in my mouth,' said she.
Colonel Poltermore still had the privilege of conducting her the few farther steps to her lodgings.
Caseldy walked beside Chloe, and silently, until he said, 'If I have not yet mentioned the subject--' 'If it is an allusion to money let me not hear it to-night,' she replied.
'I can only say that my lawyers have instructions.

But my lawyers cannot pay you in gratitude.