"If I were a man, Miss Iris is just the young lady that I should fall in love with." She looked significantly at Mountjoy.

Nothing came of it.

She went on: "Miss Henley must have had many opportunities of being married; but the right man has, I fear, not yet presented himself." Once more her eloquent eyes consulted Mountjoy, and once more nothing came of it.

Some women are easily discouraged.
Impenetrable Mrs.Vimpany was one of the other women; she had not done with Mountjoy yet--she invited him to dinner on the next day.
"Our early hour is three o'clock," she said modestly.

"Pray join us.