Miles Grendall was very useful to him, and he would not quarrel with Miles, at any rate as yet.
'Have another rubber, Alfred ?' he said to Miles's father as the carriages were taking away the guests.
Lord Alfred had taken sundry glasses of champagne, and for a moment forgot the bills in the safe, and the good things which his boys were receiving.

'Damn that kind of nonsense,' he said.

'Call people by their proper names.' Then he left the house without a further word to the master of it.

That night before they went to sleep Melmotte required from his weary wife an account of the ball, and especially of Marie's conduct.

'Marie,' Madame Melmotte said, 'had behaved well, but had certainly preferred "Sir Carbury" to any other of the young men.' Hitherto Mr Melmotte had heard very little of Sir Carbury, except that he was a baronet.