By the way, I must find out whether we are to have the pleasure of his company.

I would rather be without him myself.

A strange girl! One can account for her beauty, she inherited that; but it is difficult to understand the manner.

By rights she should be a half-wild hoyden, but I never saw an English lady with more grace and dignity.

Perhaps I have forgotten; it is so long since I associated with ladies, or perhaps, like beauty, these are natural to her.