Lord Clumber tells us that he has frequently entertained eighty guests for dinner.

The system of ventilation in this room is, as you see, entirely modern." She took him by the arm and led him to a seat at the further end of the apartment.
"Mr.Tavernake," she said, making an obvious attempt to control her temper, "you seem like a very sensible young man, if you will allow me to say so, and I want to convince you that it is your duty to answer my questions.

In the first place--don't be offended, will you ?--but I cannot possibly see what interest you and that young lady can have in one another.

You belong, to put it baldly, to altogether different social stations, and it is not easy to imagine what you could have in common." She paused, but Tavernake had nothing to say.

His gift of silence amounted sometimes almost to genius.