And then he was silent.

How was he to deploy himself on the ground before him so as to make the strategy which he had prepared answer the occasion of the day?
"Lady Eustace," he said, "I don't know what your views of life may be." "I have a child, you know, to bring up." "Ah, yes;--that gives a great interest, of course." "He will inherit a very large fortune, Lord Fawn;--too large, I fear, to be of service to a youth of one-and-twenty; and I must endeavour to fit him for the possession of it.

That is,--and always must be, the chief object of my existence." Then she felt that she had said too much.

He was just the man who would be fool enough to believe her.

"Not but what it is hard to do it.