Englishmen were so deep.

They might have nice manners, but they didn't always act up to them, so far as she had noticed.

There was that Honourable Somebody, who was in jail even then for trying to borrow money under false pretences from the Governor-General.

Lorne, when she expressed these views to him, reassured her, but she continued to maintain a guarded attitude upon Mr Hesketh, to everybody except Mr Hesketh himself.
It was Dora, as I have said, who imparted the news.

Lorne had come over with it in the afternoon, still a little dazed and unbelieving in the face of his tremendous luck, helped by finding her so readily credulous to thinking it reasonably possible himself.