She was taken to and from supper by Sir Thomas, but any other takings that were incurred were done by him.

He led her from one drawing-room to another; he took her empty coffee-cup; he stood behind her chair, and talked to her; and he brought her the scarf which she had left elsewhere; and finally, he put a shawl round her neck while old Sir Thomas was waiting to hand her to her carriage.

Reader, good-natured, middle-aged reader, remember that she was only thirty-eight, and that hitherto she had known nothing of the delights of love.

By the young, any such hallucination on her part, at her years, will be regarded as lunacy, or at least frenzy.
Owen Fitzgerald drove home from that ball in a state of mind that was hardly satisfactory.

In the first place, Miss Letty had made a direct attack upon his morals, which he had not answered in the most courteous manner.
"I have heard a great deal of your doings, Master Owen," she said to him.