"I used to enjoy modeling tiny deer and hinds in wax, as well as making daisy chains.

Is sculpture among the many accomplishments which rumor tells us you possess ?" "No.

Those who, like me, have their own fortunes to mold find time for little else," he answered gravely, still examining the marble group.
Lillian broke her fan with an angry flirt, for she was tired of her trial, and wished she had openly greeted him at the beginning; feeling now how pleasant it would have been to sit chatting of old times, while her friends dared hardly address him at all.

She was on the point of calling him by his former name, when the remembrance of what he had been arrested the words on her lips.

He was proud; would he not dread to have it known that, in his days of adversity, he had been a servant?
For if she betrayed her knowledge of his past, she would be forced to tell where and how that knowledge was gained.