"I have heard things about him; I can see that there has been some exaggeration.

I shall be very glad to have him for a neighbor." "A neighbor ?" said Miss Challoner.
"Yes.

He is coming back to Herculaneum to live." "That is news to me." The actress stirred her coffee and smiled at Patty.

"I understand you've been riding together.

He is really a splendid horseman." "He has the dearest old dog," replied Patty.
The day passed quickly for all concerned: the dinner and box-party left nothing to be desired.
The wedding-breakfast would have provoked envy in the heart of Lucullus; for Warrington was a man of the world, thoroughly polished; there was nothing Stoic about him (though, in the early days he had been a disciple of this cult perforce); he was a thoroughgoing epicure.
Patty was delighted.