Hence Lady Haldwell's journey of inquisition to Cavendish Square.
As Richard passed the drawing-room door to ascend the stairs, he recognised the voices.
Once a sort of heathen, as Mrs.Francis Armour had been, she still could grasp the situation with considerable clearness.

There is nothing keener than one woman's instinct regarding another woman, where a man is concerned.

Mrs.Francis Armour received Lady Haldwell with a quiet stateliness, which, if it did not astonish her, gave her sufficient warning that matters were not, in this little comedy, to be all her own way.
Thrown upon the mere resources of wit and language, Mrs.Francis Armour must have been at a disadvantage.

For Lady Haldwell had a good gift of speech, a pretty talent for epithet, and no unnecessary tenderness.

She bore Lali no malice.