He could not do so without making a row which would have been disgraceful to himself and injurious to his wife; and therefore he had taken Mrs.
Poole to Naples.

Lady Milborough knew the whole story, and thought that she foresaw that the same thing was about to happen in the drawing-room in Curzon Street.

When she attempted to say a word to the wife, she found herself stopped.

She could not go on in that quarter after the reception with which the beginning of her word had been met.

But perhaps she might succeed better with the husband.
After all, her friendship was with the Trevelyan side, and not with the Rowleys.
"My dear Louis," she said, "I want to speak a word to you.